NAYPYITAW, 13 August 2021, (TON): According to local sources “a shooting in the fourth ward of Myingyan, Mandalay Region killed a one-year-old girl and injured her father and another passerby.”

The identity of the perpetrators had not been confirmed at the time of reporting, but eyewitnesses accused the armed guards stationed outside the home of local junta-appointed administrator Tun Tun Oo—three doors down from the victims’ house of firing the shots.

Locals said that Tun Tun Oo is known to carry a gun and to have three armed guards in front of his house at all times.

A resident of the ward said that two plainclothes men arrived outside the house of 29-year-old Nyein Chan, the infant girl’s father, about whom little was known at the time of reporting and fired shots in front of the residence.

The eyewitness said “he believed the men were members of the administrator’s security team.”

He told media “There were guards in front of Tun Tun Oo’s house—I think they were the ones who shot them. They were saying that they had to shoot them because they were ‘acting suspicious’.”