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Firemen battle a fire in Lashio in the Northern Shan state of Burma, May 29, 2013.
Burma's government called for calm after mobs burned down a Muslim orphanage, a mosque and shops during a new eruption of religious violence in the east of the country.
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People gather around a burning mosque in Lashio, northern Shan State, Burma, May 28, 2013.
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An injured Shan Buddhist man lies in bed at Lashio Hospital, May 29, 2013.
Burma's government called for calm Wednesday after mobs burned down a Muslim orphanage, a mosque and shops during a new eruption of religious violence in the east of the country.
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Hundreds of Buddhists armed with sticks patrol on motorcycles Lashio, northern Shan State, Burma, May 29, 2013.
Sectarian violence spread to a new region of Burma, with a mob burning shops in the northeastern town after unconfirmed rumors spread that a Muslim man had set fire to a Buddhist woman.
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People watch a burning mosque in Lashio, northern Shan State, Burma, May 28, 2013.
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Residents walk past the smoking debris of a charred building in Lashio, Burma, May 30, 2013.
Many Buddhists and Muslims stayed locked inside their homes and shops were shuttered after two days of violence in Lashio, near the border with China, the latest region to fall prey to the country's spreading sectarian violence.
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Firemen battle flames in Lashio, May 29, 2013.
Burma's government called for calm after mobs burned down a Muslim orphanage, a mosque and shops during a new eruption of religious violence in the east of the country.
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A soldier walks past a fire in Lashio, May 29, 2013.
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Buddhists armed with sticks patrol on motorcycles as armed army officers watch in Lashio, Burma, May 29, 2013.
Hundreds of Buddhist men on motorcycles waved iron rods and bamboo poles and threw rocks on Wednesday, a day after a mosque and a Muslim orphanage were torched in a new wave of violence targeting the religious minority.
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Two ride past a fire in Lashio, Burma, May 29, 2013.
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An injured Shan woman, who was torched with petrol by a Muslim man, is seen at Lashio Hospital, May 29, 2013.
Burma's government called for calm Wednesday after mobs burned down a Muslim orphanage, a mosque and shops during a new eruption of religious violence in the east of the country.
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A policeman and an army officer guard a burned mosque in Lashio, Burma, May 29, 2013.
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A fireman moves debris following sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Lashio, Burma, May 30, 2013.
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People gather around a burning mosque in Lashio, Burma, May 28, 2013.
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A firefighter walks in the foreground of a burned building that housed an orphanage for Muslim children in Lashio, Burma, May 30, 2013.
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A fireman moves debris from a burned building that housed a Muslim orphanage in Lashio, Burma, May 30, 2013.
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A vandalized mosque is seen in the background of a burned shop in Lashio, Burma, May 29, 2013.
