Myanmar's military has been accused of planting land mines in the path of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in its western Rakhine state, agency reports said quoting Amnesty International.

Two people were reportedly wounded on Sunday by the mines.

Refugee accounts of the latest spasm of violence in Rakhine have typically described shootings by soldiers and arson attacks on villages.

But there are at least several cases that point to anti-personnel land mines or other explosives as the cause of injuries on the border with Bangladesh, where 3,00,000 Rohingya have fled in the past two weeks, the reports said.

An officer of the Bangladesh border guard was quoted as saying that he was awareof at least three Rohingya injured in explosions.

Bangladeshi officials and Amnesty researchers believe new explosives have been recently planted, including one that therights group said blew off a Bangladeshi farmer's leg and another that wounded a Rohingya man.

Both incidents occurred on Sunday.

It said at least three people including two children were injured in the past week.

Amnesty said that based on interviews with eyewitnesses and analysis by its own weapons experts, it believes there is 'targeted use of landlines' along a narrow stretch of the north-western border of Rakhine state that is a crossing pointfor fleeing Rohingya. -- Agencies

IMAGE: Rohingya refugee children are stopped by volunteers as they jostle to receive food distributed by local organisations in Kutupalong, Bangladesh. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters