Myanmar: 71 die in militant attacks on police, border posts

By ESTHER HTUSAN
YANGON, Myanmar  — Ethnic Rohingya militants in western Myanmar launched overnight attacks on more than two dozen police and border outposts, leaving 12 security personnel and 59 Rohingya dead, the government said Friday, in a dramatic escalation of fighting in the troubled region.
The office of the country’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, said military and border police responded to the attacks by launching “clearance operations.”
Police fought off group