Eain Soe Pru, Narinjara News, 14March 2022

A resident of Mee Taik village under northern Maungdaw township in western  Rakhine State was shotdead by the border police personnel.

The incident took place on 13 March  at around 6 pm andthe victim has been identified as Kyaw Maung Thar (35). According to a villager, the Danet ethnic national faced theconsequence while he was looking for a missingcow.

“One of his cows went missing and Kyaw Maung Thar went out looking for it in  woods near the village.Then he faced the bullets of border guards,”said a relative of the victim, adding that Kyaw Maung Thar was  taken to Maungdaw hospital bytwo police personnel by a car, he succumbed to injuries soon.

Mee Taik village administrator Maung Thar Tun informed that the victim, who had four children, received bullet injuries on his right legand lost a large volume of blood. The village gives space to 150 families, where the villagers includeDynastic and Maramagyi tribes too.

Captain  Soe Myint Oo of the Nakhakha (2) Border Guard invited the village headman to the camp andarranged to send Kyaw Maung Thar to thehospital. While he died, his body was transported from the hospital to the village for his lastrites, the village administratoradded.

The Maungdaw police station was approached for details about the incident, but a police officer on dutytold Narinjara News to talk to theborder police force as the case is not relating to the ordinary police department.