NAYPYITAW, 01 October 2021, (TON): According to a local social welfare group “the bodies of two missing men were found in a Demoso Township village in Kayah (Karenni) State on Tuesday in an area recently occupied by junta troops.”

The body of one man was found near a football field, and the other discovered in a septic tank that was still under construction, both in Dawkhalaiklin village.

Maung Htoo, the father of the first victim 20-year-old Kyaw Lin Paing was only able to identify the body as belonging to his son because of the clothes he was wearing and the motorcycle parked nearby.

He had been missing since leaving home on September 22 along with his cousin, 23-year-old Hsu Reh, to buy supplies in a market in the Kayah State capital.

Maung Htoo said “he was heading towards Loikaw to get supplies for Hsu Reh’s three-month-old baby.”

Kyaw Lin Paing had been staying in Hpehlar village in the same township after fleeing his home in Demoso town due to the ongoing clashes between the military and the resistance, according to his father.

His family buried him immediately after his body was found, and is also planning to hold a funeral for Hsu Reh on Friday, as he has also not been heard from since leaving home last week.