A deputy traffic inspector leading a team of armed junta personnel was hospitalised after being shot by unidentified assailants at a road checkpoint in Mandalay’s Pyigyitagon Township on Sunday, local sources said.
The shooting occurred on 62nd Street, a busy north-south thoroughfare on the south side of Mandalay, between 124th and 125th streets, as the police inspector’s squad of about ten police officers, traffic police, and plainclothes, junta-trained Pyu Saw Htee militia members were stopping vehicles to search them.
A resident of the township said that the officer leading the squad—a traffic police deputy inspector around 35 years old—was rumoured to have been shot in the chest.
“At first, people just thought there had been a car accident because of all the commotion. Later, people found out it was a shooting,” he said.
“As of last night, she was still. . .
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