United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is to send a special envoy to Myanmar amid reports of several deaths in clashes between security forces and thousands of protesters led by Buddhist monks.
Unconfirmed opposition reports put the death toll at five. "A statement from the main Buddhist organization leading the demonstrations said five monks have been killed," Aye Chan Naing, chief editor of the Democratic Voice of Burma, told CNN from his office in Oslo, Norway.
Myanmar's ruling junta acknowledged that one civilian had been killed and three wounded in the suppression of anti-government protests, The Associated Press reported. 
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