Bangladesh’s interim government appealed for calm after at least four people died in clashes between rival groups in the southeastern region bordering India and Myanmar.

Ethnic tensions have escalated in the southeastern Khagrachari district of Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts, where clashes between Indigenous Chakma and Bengali residents have left at least four people dead and dozens injured.

Amid rising tensions in Bangladeshs hilly regions, the army urges peace as violence claims four lives and protests escalate.