BANGKOK: Fighters from an ethnic minority group pressed their assault on security forces in Rakhine state in western Myanmar for a second day on Tuesday, as an offensive against the military widens across the Southeast Asian country.

Arakan Army (AA) fighters seized an outpost of the border police at Chinkhali in Rakhine on Tuesday morning, spokesman Khaing Thu Kha told Agence France-Presse (AFP).

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