The Information Team of State Administration Council (SAC) announced that seven teachers including the headmistress from Agricultural Science Institute (Dawei) in Sakhangyi village, Longlon Township, Taninthari Region, were kidnapped and the non-gazetted officer from the Agricultural Department were shot dead.

The SAC announcement also reported that so-called PDF members kidnapped seven teachers including the headmistress and her 10-year-old son on July 20. 

Around 12:30 pm of July 20, the PDF members arrived at the Agricultural Science Institute (Dawei), Longlon Township, Taninthari Region by car. Later, they met with the teachers including the headmistress and students at the assembly hall. And then, they ordered the students to sit-down and the teachers including the headmistress to lie prone on the floor. Moreover, they tortured the teachers including the headmistress and students and threatened the teachers to participate in the CDM movement. They also threatened the faculty members to leave the school as deadline in the morning of July 21. They then left for Myohaun village after kidnapping seven teachers including the headmistress and her10-year-old son, according to the SAC’s Information Team.

While Thein Oo who is a non-gazetted officer from Agricultural Department and teaching at the Agricultural Science Institute (Dawei) was sleeping at his house, the terrorists arrived at his house by motorbikes and then they kidnapped Thein Oo at the oil-palm farm situated in-front of the victim’s house and opened fire on Thein Oo who died on the spot, says SAC’s information Team.

The SAC Information Team said that the security forces are now carrying out regional security tasks and they are striving to arrest the culprits who must be taken severe actions in accordance with the law.