TUMBRU, Bangladesh: Fighting in Myanmar raged close to the Bangladesh border on Sunday, with terrified residents reporting bullets crossing the frontier, medics treating patients and the government saying guards had fled to seek shelter.

Aid agency Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières or MSF) said its medics in southeastern Cox's Bazar district had "received a large number of patients following fighting at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border."

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