Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday that at least 6,700 Rohingya Muslims were killed in the month before the military action against the rebels in Myanmar's Rohingya State. This action started in late August.

The figures of MSF are the most anticipated dead numbers. Violence in the Rohingya State began on August 25 and it created a major refugee crisis when more than 620,000 Rohingyas migrated from Myanmar to Bangladesh in the three months.

The United Nations and the United States had described the military action as an ethnic cleansing of Muslim minorities, but the estimated number of people killed in violence did not continue.

MSF told on Thursday that at least even estimated, 6,700 Rohingyas were killed in violence. These include 730 children under five years of age. This investigation of the group has emerged from six surveys conducted in more than 2,434 houses in Rohingya refugee camps. These surveys were done in a month.

Medical director of the group Sydney Wong said that we met and talked to the victims of the violence in Myanmar. They are living in the capacity-filled and dirty refugee camps in Bangladesh. According to the survey, in 69% of cases, death occurred due to bullet injuries, while 9% of deaths were caused by burning alive in homes. Five percent of people were beaten to death.

About 60% of children below the age of five have died due to bullet injuries.

The army of Myanmar denied refuting any kind of abuse, saying that 376 Rohingya terrorists including only 400 people died in the first few weeks of the commencement of the action.

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