ARSA Explosive Kills Two: 2 Men Killed And 3 Injured By An Explosive Triggered By ARSA

Two men were killed and three injured by an explosive triggered by ARSA in Maungtaw Township, Rakhine State, in the morning on 30th March.

At 8:55 am on 30 March 2020, a man identified as U San Aung Phyu, 50, and 11 Dainet  residents from Mingalar Nyunt  Village were on their motorbikes to go check on some bird traps. They parked their bikes near Kamaungseik  Village and Aungzu Village and went into the woods on foot.

It was at the intersection to Bawtala  Village, 20 feet from Hlaingti  Creek Bridge that members of ARSA set of an explosive and shot U San Aung Phyu and his group with small firearms. They ran back to their motorbikes but found them destroyed.

U San Aung Phyu and 9 others managed to escape to Kamaungseik  Village around 9 am and he and 2 others suffered non-fatal serious injuries while two men identified as U Kyaw Thein Maung, 35, and U Maung Mae, 20, from Aungthapyay Village and Kamaungseik Village respectively, were missing.

At around 9:30 am, soldiers from Kamaungseik  command and police officers went to the scene of the incident and discovered the bodies of U Kyaw Thein Maung and U Maung Mae along with a 50-feet piece of wire and a cartridge and bullets of an AK47 firearm.

The three injured men including U San Aung Phyu were sent to Maungtaw People’s Hospital around 9:55 a.m. and are receiving medical treatment, according to the Myanmar Police Force.