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Myanmar: Junta arrests 20 people in neighbouring ward hours after assassination of Mytel executive
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NAYPYITAW, 11 November 2021, (TON): Some 20 young people living in a hostel in Yangon’s Mayangone Township were reportedly arrested on the evening of November 4, the same day that Thein Aung, former military officer and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Mytel, was shot and killed near his home in the same area.
Thein Aung was shot four times on Tay Nu Yin St in Ward 7(c), situated next to the Yangon Region military command, at around 7am that day.
Some 150 troops began a search of the township in the hours after the executive’s death, culminating in the arrests at the Daw Kyi Nyunt hostel in Mayangone’s Ward 6, according to a local source.
The local said “we still don’t know the names of the victims,”
He added that both women and men were taken into junta custody, but the hostel owner was not among those arrested.
He further said that no one in the area had been able to contact the families of the detainees, and he did not know where they were being held.
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