Three men armed with firebombs, machetes and an ax attacked Myanmar's embassy in Malaysia yesterday, hacking one senior official and starting a blaze that gutted the building, officials and witnesses said.
Police arrested the three suspects, Myanmar nationals who had been turned away from the embassy on Tuesday after demanding that officials endorse documents claiming that a relative was a freedom fighter in the country, also known as Burma.
The three were from Myanmar's Rohinga ethnic minority who believed the documents could help them win political asylum status from the UN High Commission for Refugees, a police official said.
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