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Police collect bodies in strife-torn Myanmar town
Jun 11th, 2012
With fearful residents cowering indoors, security forces patrolling a tense town in western Myanmar collected bodies Monday from the debris of homes burned down over the weekend in some of the country's deadliest sectarian bloodshed in years. (Source: Associated Press) -
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