Out of more than 30,000 displaced people sheltering in the Wa region, over 400 migrant workers and 12 trucks were transported by UWSP to Kengtung. Those who fled fighting to China from villages near the border couldn’t be contacted by their relatives.

Thousands of people have fled renewed fighting between Myanmar's army and ethnic insurgents in the country's remote north, a United Nations official said, as a long-simmering conflict intensifies.