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#BREAKING Fresh protests in Myanmar's Yangon after troops deployed: AFP

#UPDATES Hundreds of engineering and technology students gather in the north of Myanmar's largest city of Yangon, following an overnight internet blackout and the deployment of troops on the streets, according to an @AFP photographer

Myanmar's junta cuts the nation's internet and deploys extra troops around the country as fears built of a widespread crackdown on anti-coup protests, but defiant demonstrators again take to the streets u.afp.com/UTzQ

Factfile on the military coup in Myanmar that deposed the elected government on February 1

VIDEO: About a hundred protesters face off against soldiers and armoured vehicles outside the Central Bank in Yangon

#UPDATE Sleepless residents across #Myanmar are patrolling their neighbourhoods at night to guard against arrest raids and troublemaking prisoners released by the military junta u.afp.com/UTvE