The death toll from last week’s sectarian violence between Buddhist and Rohingya Muslim communities in western Myanmar has reached 84 with 129 injured, state media reported Monday. The New Light of Myanmar newspaper said 2,950 houses, 14 religious buildings and eight rice mills were burned down. The official estimations set the death toll at 67 while residents and a Muslim party leader in the state capital, Sittwe, about 500 kilometres north-west of Yangon, had placed it at more than 100.