Villages have been burned in Rakhine, reports say, amid violence following Friday's attacks .A fresh outbreak of violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state has caused tens of thousands of Rohingya civilians to flee towards Bangladesh.
The exodus began in the last week of August after Rohingya militants attacked police posts, killing 12 members of the security forces. Dozens of militants are reported to have been killed in both those and subsequent clashes.
When similar attacks on police posts took place last year, Myanmar's military launched a crackdown on the Rohingya that led to claims of severe human rights abuses.
As people surge towards the border, the United Nations has urged Myanmar's authorities to protect all civilians "without discrimination".
The Muslim Rohingya have faced years of persecution in Myanmar. Deep-seated tensions between them and the majority Buddhist population in Rakhine have led to deadly communal violence in the past.
When did the latest violence start?
On 25 August Rohingya insurgents armed with knives and home-made bombs attacked more than 30 police posts in northern Rakhine, the government said.
Clashes are reported to have continued ever since, displacing civilians from both communities. There are also reports of civilian deaths.
The Burmese military puts the number of deaths at 400, and says almost all of those killed were militants.
Many are sceptical of that claim but journalists' access to Rakhine state is severely restricted, making it hard to confirm details on the ground.
Human Rights Watch says satellite data shows widespread fires in at least 10 areas, and journalists have reported seeing blazes from across the Bangladesh border.
The government says militants started the fires, while fleeing Rohingya say they were started by troops and Buddhist mobs carrying out raids in the wake of the militant attacks.
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Thousands of Rohingya, mainly women and children, have fled to Bangladesh since Friday
Rakhine Buddhists have also left their homes to head to safer parts of the state, reports say
What is the situation at the border?
The number of Rohingya seeking safety in Bangladesh had been steadily rising since the 25 August attacks, and turned into a flood by early September.
The UN now says 87,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh in the past 10 days as their villages burn - more than did so over the whole of the last year.
Most are women, children and the elderly, and many have arrived with injuries sustained in the crackdown.
Rohingya Muslim women have been weeping on the Bangladesh border
There have also been many reports of people being prevented from crossing the border, despite UN pleas for Bangladesh to let them in. The Bangladesh authorities are now doing so.
But some 20,000 Rohingya are thought to be stuck along the Naf river, which forms the border. Aid agencies say they are at risk from drowning - as happened with a group of 20 who perished trying to make the crossing last week - as well as disease and venomous snakes.
Bangladesh is already home to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have fled previous outbreaks of violence in Myanmar.
Inside Myanmar, there are also reports of Rakhine Buddhists moving south to escape the violence.
Who are the militants?
A group called the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa) says it carried out the 25 August attacks. The group first emerged in October 2016, when it carried out similar assaults on police posts, killing nine police officers.
It says its main aim is to protect the Rohingya Muslim minority from state repression in Myanmar.
The government says Arsa is a terrorist group whose leaders have been trained abroad. Its leader is Ata Ullah, a Rohingya born in Pakistan who was raised in Saudi Arabia, according to the International Crisis Group.
But a spokesman for the group told Asia Times that it had no links to jihadi groups and that its members were young Rohingya men angered by events since communal violence in 2012.
What are the Rohingyas' grievances?
Myanmar's government claims the Rohingya are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and denies them citizenship, even though many say they have been there for generations. Bangladesh also denies they are its citizens.
Many are living in temporary camps after being forced from their villages by the wave of communal violence that swept Rakhine in 2012. They live in one of Myanmar's poorest states, and their movements and access to employment are severely restricted.
In the wake of the militant attacks of October 2016, many Rohingya accused the security forces of rape, killings, burning villages and torture during the military crackdown that followed. About 80,000 had fled Myanmar for Bangladesh by the time of the 25 August attacks - but that figure has now more than doubled.
The UN human rights body, in a report, said "devastating cruelty" had taken place. The UN is now carrying out a formal investigation, although the military denies wrong doing.
Last week UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said the latest violence could have been prevented.
"Decades of persistent and systematic human rights violations, including the very violent security responses to the attacks since October 2016, have almost certainly contributed to the nurturing of violent extremism," he said.
And the UN's special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, has criticised the country's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, saying she should intervene on behalf of the Rohingyas.
"That's what we would expect from any government, to protect everybody within their own jurisdiction. She is caught between a rock and a hot spot, but I think it's time for her to come out of that spot now," Ms Lee told the criticia news.
Aung San Suu Kyi was questioned in April on why she hadn't done more for the Rohingyas
Is there a regional backlash?
Muslim nations in South East Asia and further afield are voicing concern over the plight of the Rohingya.
There have been protests in Indonesia, and the country's foreign minister met Burmese leaders to urge them to alleviate the crisis.
In Malaysia, which is home to tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees, Prime Minister Najib Razak hit out at the "dire situation" facing the Rohingya.
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The Maldives says it is severing all economic ties with Myanmar until it stops violating the Rohingyas' human rights, while Pakistan's foreign ministry said it was "deeply concerned over reports of growing number of deaths and forced displacement of Rohingya Muslims".
In Central Asia's Kyrgyzstan, a football international with Myanmar has been cancelled, apparently because of a plan by some social media users to protest ahead of the Asian Cup qualifier.
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