YANGON, Myanmar — A mob burned down a mosque in northern Myanmar in the second such attack in just over a week, a newspaper reported Saturday.

The state-owned Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper said security forces in Hpakant in Kachin State had been unable to control the attackers as they set fire to the mosque on Friday. The attackers were armed with sticks, knives and other weapons, the newspaper said.

It said the mosque’s leaders had failed to meet a June 30 deadline set by the local authorities to tear down the structure to make way for construction of a bridge.

On June 23, a mob demolished a mosque and a Muslim cemetery in a village in Bago Region, about 36 miles northeast of Yangon, reportedly as a consequence of a personal dispute.