In Myingyan Township, Mandalay Region, a prison department officer’s wife, her three-year-old granddaughter, and a taxi driver were reportedly abducted by members of the People’s Defense Force (PDF).

According to reports, Daw Ni Ni Win, the wife of U Win Naing Soe, head officer of the Myingyan Township Prison Department, was traveling with her three-year-old granddaughter, Ma Roon Cherry Hein, in a hired car driven by U Min Khan from No. (13) Ward, Myingyan. They left Myingyan on the morning of October 5, heading to Belin Village in Sintgaing Township along the Myingyan–Myotha–Tada-U–Mandalay road to visit relatives. Around 9 a.m., near Nwar Kuu Ai Village, members of the PDF stopped their vehicle and took all three of them away along with the car.

Security forces are currently carrying out necessary operations to rescue the detainees and to apprehend those responsible for abducting the family members of a government officer.

Similarly, on September 28, members of the PDF stopped and inspected a Pyidaw Aye passenger bus traveling from Nay Pyi Taw to Myingyan. During the search near Kyauk Phu Village junction on the Taungtha–Zagyan–Myingyan road, they abducted U Than Htun Aung, a driver from the Department of Irrigation and Water Utilization Management in Nay Pyi Taw.

In another incident on October 1, in Kun Sike Village, Myingyan Township, PDF members attacked two monks and one civilian with knives, killing one of the monks.