Myanmar: Junta troops shoot two brothers dead in Magway Region

NAYPYITAW, 15 September 2021, (TON): Two brothers were shot and killed and four other men were arrested in a Myanmar army raid on a village in Magway Region’s Taungdwingyi Township.

Eyewitnesses said that the plainclothes troops arrived in Taung Lyaung village at 1pm, hours after a Mytel telecoms tower, a company partially owned by the military was blown up seven miles away in another Taungdwingyi Township village, Koke Ko Kone.

One of the witnesses told media “they came because of reports from informants from the village. They did not use military cars.”

“Young people were gathered in a yard. They surrounded them. They shot one of the young people twice, tied him up with a rope, and assaulted him.”

The two men who were killed were 36-year-old Myat Soe Lwin and his younger brother, Pyae Gyi, 20. The four others who were arrested were in the yard at the time of the raid, the eyewitnesses said. It is not known where they were taken.

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