ARSA Attack: 2 Died And 3 Injured Due To Explosive

Two men were killed and three injured due to an explosive triggered by ARSA in Maungtaw Township of Rakhine State on Monday Moring.

At 8:55 am on 30 March, a man identified as U San Aung Phyu  and 11 Dainet residents from Mingalar Nyunt Village were on their motorbikes to go check on some bird traps. They parked their bikes between Kamaungseik  and Aungzu  Villages 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 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 other men from Aungthapyay and Kamaungseik Villages respectively, were missing.

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

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