BANGKOK/YANGON — Fighting between Myanmar’s army and armed ethnic teams is intensifying close to the border with India, disrupting a key infrastructure undertaking and threatening to drive a rift between the 2 international locations.

The Arakan Army, an armed ethnic group based mostly in western Myanmar, took management of Paletwa township close to the port metropolis of Sittwe in mid-January. The space is a hyperlink within the Kaladan Multimodal Transit Transport Project, an Indian-led effort to attach Kolkata with japanese India through Myanmar.