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Military shoots, kills civilian in Depayin following murder of administrator’s daughters

Regime soldiers opened fire on villages in Sagaing Region’s Depayin Township on Monday after both a former local administrator and the daughters of a current junta-allied administrator were killed by unknown assailants one day earlier.

One villager was killed and another was seriously injured in Monday’s attack. 

On Sunday evening, locals in the Depayin Township village of Kyi found the bodies of two women—Than Than Sint, a school teacher in her 30s, and San, in her 40s—with visible stab wounds near a creek. Their father, Thein Zaw, the village’s administrator under the military regime, fled the area soon after. 

Junta-run newspaper Kyemon alleged on June 15 that “armed terrorists” were responsible for the women’s deaths. 

Bo Tint, the former administrator of Inpin village, also in Depayin, was shot in the head on Sunday evening as well. He had been accused of being a military informant regarding anti-coup activities due to his close ties to the army.

After the three deaths on Sunday, 16 military trucks were subsequently deployed to villages throughout the township. On Monday afternoon, the junta’s army first opened fire on residents of Satpyarkyin and Boke, two miles west of Kyi. 

“They stormed the villages for no apparent reason. They used a lot of force,” a Boke resident said.

Twenty-one-year-old Boke local Aung San was shot in the chest and died immediately. Thike Htwe, 22 was shot in the abdomen and in the pubic region and is seriously injured. 

Villagers feared Thike would be arrested and tortured if he were taken to the hospital, so he was being treated in a safe house at the time of reporting, according to residents. 

Hundreds of soldiers then stormed the villages of Kyi, Inpin, Nyaung Hla and Yin Kyay, reportedly chasing and shooting at locals. 

At around 6pm on Monday, fighting broke out between the army and the local People’s Defence Force (PDF) near Inpin. The clash lasted more than 30 minutes. 

Two regime soldiers were killed and seven were injured in the fighting, according to the local PDF.

On Tuesday morning, around 300 soldiers in 22 military trucks opened fire in Nyaung Hla. Further information about the incident was not available at the time of reporting. 

Since April, the junta’s troops have been deployed to the Sagaing Region villages where there have been anti-coup activities in Depayin, Yinmabin, Kani, Taze, Ayadaw and Mingin townships.

 

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