A 100-household administrator died after being shot at close-range in Mandalay’s Maha Aungmyay Township on Monday morning.
Tun Tun, in his 40s, was a painter and an administrator in Western Thanlyat Maw ward, where he was shot on 90th St while driving a motorcycle on which his adult daughter was a passenger.
“I heard gunshots nearby and when I turned back to check, I saw a man and a woman lying on the ground near a motorbike,” an eyewitness told Myanmar Now, adding that the woman was unharmed but the man was dead.
“There was blood all over his head,” the witness said.
A Mandalay-based guerrilla group going by the name of “Generation Z Power” claimed responsibility for the assassination of Tun Tun hours later.
A local man from Western Thanlyat Maw ward said that soldiers and police officers frequently visited Tun Tun’s house, and alleged that he had directed the junta’s troops to the homes of known activists and anti-dictatorship protesters.
Myanmar Now has yet to confirm the allegations against the deceased.
Western Thanlyat Maw ward is made up of 18 neighbourhoods. The ward’s administration office was burned down in May and subsequently rebuilt, but since then has been targeted in two bomb attacks—presumably by anti-junta resistance forces—on September 16 and October 28.
Another explosion took place at the office on November 4, injuring two soldiers.
Later that evening, 60-year-old Myo Naing, the ward’s administrator, was shot dead. Generation Z Power also claimed responsibility for his assassination.
