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2009-08-31 00:43:15
KUNMING, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Panic-stricken residents caught up in armed clashes along the Myanmar border have begun to return from China to their homes in Myanmar as the situation calms down, a senior Chinese police officer said Sunday.
Meng Sutie, police chief in southwest China's Yunnan Province, said 37,000 border inhabitants comprising both Burmese and Chinese have so far fled into China after armed conflicts in Myanmar broke out last week.
One Chinese citizen was killed and two others injured by three shells that were fired into the Chinese territory. The conflicts in Myanmar have also killed a Chinese and injured 13 others in that country, Meng said.
Myanmar had apologized for the Chinese casualties after the China side made a stern representation, Meng said.
The Yunnan provincial government had settled those fleeing the conflict and supplied accommodation, food and medical treatment.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Friday that China hoped Myanmar could properly solve its domestic issues and safeguard the stability of its border with China.
The conflict arose from confrontation between Myanmar government forces and an ethnic army in the Kokang area of Shan state in northeastern Myanmar. Kokang shares a border with Yunnan and has a population of about 150,000.
Source: Xinhua News
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