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SHOCKING: Desperate myanmar villagers scavenge for food as hunger bites | Mind Blowing Facts

People flee from a village after fighting erupts in Myanmar's western Rakhine State, which is seeing a dramatic rise in hunger amid aid cuts (Credit: AFP)

People in western Myanmar have been driven to scavenging for bamboo shoots, as humanitarian workers warn a wartime blockade and aid cutbacks led by Washington have caused hunger cases to surge.

"Another day has gone, and I have to struggle again for another day," fruit vendor Kyaw Win Shein told AFP in the town of Mrauk U in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

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