The UN World Food Programme says that an escalating conflict between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar has left roughly 90-thousand people displaced.

It added that the refugees are in desperate need of aid and helping hands.

WFP spokeswoman Elizabeth Byrs said that her agency delivered emergency food to 66-thousand refugees in the western part of Myanmar. She added that the WFP is now sending more emergency food like rice, beans and cooking oil to Rakhine State in western Myanmar.

Byrs told reporters that the WFP will carry out emergency aid programs in Rakhine State for three months.

A violent, bloody conflict between Buddhists and Muslims broke out in Rakhine State on June third, after a mob of Buddhists allegedly attacked and killed ten Muslims in an apparent retaliation to an earlier rape and murder of a Buddhist girl by three Muslims. The violence killed some 50 people.