Local authorities have asked Muslim community leaders to shutter a mosque and madrasa that they say were opened without the proper permitting in Kyun Pone Lay village, Taikkyi, a township on the outskirts of Rangoon that was the site of deadly inter-religious violence in 2013.

Burmese authorities on Tuesday said they were worried about the safety of a town in the northwest of Rangoon Division, after it was hit by a magnitude 5.1 earthquake the night before.

The new bus service has only been running for two days, but disputes and complaints are already amounting up.

A group of alleged elephant poachers including a local village official were detained in Rangoon Division’s Taikkyi township in connection with the recent killing of an elephant.

Locals say it is common for wild elephants to roam around villages on the edge of the Pegu range during the harvest in monsoon season.

According to locals, at least three people in Taikkyi are killed by wild elephants every year.