NAYPYITAW, 12 August 2021, (TON): According to eyewitnesses “five young people involved in the anti-coup movement fell from the roof of a three-storey apartment building in downtown Yangon’s Botahtaung Township on Tuesday afternoon, with two confirmed dead on Wednesday. They were attempting to escape a military raid and allegedly jumped from the building.”

Around 20 junta personnel, including police officers and both uniformed and plainclothes soldiers, stormed an apartment on the lower block of 44th Street, while the people in question, one woman and four men were inside.

A resident who witnessed the incident, said “they ran up to the roof to escape, I think they decided that there was no other way out and jumped into the back alley behind the building.”

The eyewitness estimated that the building from which they are believed to have jumped was more than 50 feet tall.

He said that at least two people initially survived the fall and were conscious, moaning in pain and asking for water. No one was able to help them, he explained, since the soldiers at the scene threatened to shoot anyone who approached. Eventually, the two individuals stopped moving, he said.