AA releases the video footage of the military group burning the WFP warehouse in Maungdaw, Waithali
On the evening of June 25, the Arakan Army (AA) released the video footage of the World Food Program-WFP warehouse and some residential houses in Waithali village, Maungdaw Township, Rakhine State were burned down by a terrorist military group and their trained armed Muslim group on June 21, at about 5:00 p.m.
The AA statement also said that after burning down the warehouse, they took packages believed to be cement and prepared a defense at the district rural office.
The warehouse holds a total of 1,175 metric tons of relief food, which is sufficient for 64,000 people for one month. WFP strongly condemns such arson and calls for an immediate stop to this act, which will harm aid efforts, the media reported, citing WFP.
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