Troops Impose Uneasy Calm On Violence-Torn Myanmar City -- Reuters
(Reuters) - Hundreds of troops kept an uneasy calm in central Myanmar on Saturday after martial law was imposed to quell three days of bloody unrest between Buddhists and Muslims that is testing the country's nascent democracy.
The official death toll in the worst-affected town of Meikhtila stands at 11 dead, although local estimates put it as much as four times higher.
Burned corpses still lay uncollected by the roads on Saturday, said Reuters reporters in the city 540 km (336 miles) north of the commercial capital Yangon.
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