10,000 refugees flee post-election violence in Burma

FIGHTING between ethnic minority rebels and Burmese government troops has sent at least 10,000 refugees across the border into Thailand after a widely criticised election that is expected to usher in a parliament sympathetic to the military regime.

Fighting raged yesterday at key points on the border with Thailand, leaving at least 10 people wounded on both sides.

In the heaviest clashes, Karen Buddhist rebels reportedly seized a police station and post office in the border town of Myawaddy.