A staff from a retransmitting station in Rikhawdar, Chin State located in Myanmar-India border was beheaded in the evening of November 3, sources said.

“He is a supervisor of the retransmitting station in our town. The killer is a stranger who moved to our town for about a year. He lived in a factory which crushes stones. I saw him once or twice only. The killer said he was ordered to kill by God. Whatever we asked him, he said it was ordered by God. The killer lived alone. The man who had been killed lived with his family,” said a local.

Head of Rikhawdar police station and policemen and No.1 ward administrator saw a man holding a package packed with longyi walking along Rikhawdar-Phan road to the town and found a head inside the package. The killer is an odd-job man. Both of them quarreled about religion and the killer struck the staff of the retransmitting station using a fire extinguisher. When he fainted, the killer beheaded him using a nearby knife. He took his head and placed it inside the package packed with longyi worn by the deceased, according to police records.

Police brought him to the place where the incident occurred and seized a knife, a fire extinguisher and a longyi in front of witnesses. The body was sent to Rikhawdar station hospital. The police charged him under Section 302 of the Penal Court at Rikhawdar police station.