An angry mob tried to attack the security forces in Kyauktan Village, Yathadaung Township, Rakhine State while they are being interrogated for a relation with the Arakan Army (AA) and six people were killed and eight were wounded in the crackdown, announced the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Services on May 2.
The army and police temporarily kept 275 suspected people in the village school to interrogate about the connection with AA on May 1 and some people tried to attack the security forces and some run away in groups about 2 am next day, the announcement said.
Although the patrolmen shouted them to stop and fired warning shots in the air, they didn’t stop and tried to attack the security forces. They tried to grab hold of weapons from the security forces and the security forces fired at them unavoidably to make them disperse, it said.
The announcement said six are being killed, eight are wounded and four are missing in the chaos.
The medical teams from the army treated injured people and they are being sent to Sittwe hospital via Satepyin station hospital. Army officials visited the hospital and provided assistance to the injured people, it said.
The army found and occupied a temporary training base of AA about 12,000 meters away from the southeast of Phonenyolate Village, Buthidaung Township on April 28, announced the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Services on April 30.
The army had a tip-off about the AA members retreated from the base are disguised themselves as locals inside Kyauktan and Satataung villages and the security forces found 275 suspected people after they checked the household list of 447 family households in Kyauktan Village, it said.
