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Article snippet: GENEVA — United Nations officials struggling to mobilize aid for more than half a million Rohingya Muslims who fled violence in Myanmar in recent weeks have reported another surge of arrivals in Bangladesh, and warned on Tuesday that the crisis could worsen. More than 11,000 people crossed the border into Bangladesh on Monday, the United Nations refugee agency said, and thousands more are waiting to cross. More than 515,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when Myanmar’s army responded to attacks by militants in the western state of Rakhine by burning whole villages in a campaign that the United Nations has called ethnic cleansing. The number of people crossing the border had slowed to around 2,000 a day in the past week. But Adrian Edwards, a spokesman for the refugee agency, told journalists in Geneva on Tuesday, “We’re back in a situation of full alert as far as influxes are concerned.” “It’s still a situation that has potential to worsen,” he added. The surge in arrivals coincided with reports from local residents of renewed gunfire in northern Rakhine State, the refugee agency said, but that area of Myanmar is off limits to humanitarian agencies and journalists, and aid workers did not say what had caused the latest influx. Desperate to escape Myanmar, many refugees have crowded onto rickety fishing vessels to cross the Naf River into Bangladesh. At least 14 people, most of them children, died when a boat sank off the coast of Bangladesh on Su... Link to the full article to read more