MANDALAY-----Five people were killed in a poultry farm in Sikar Village near Anisakhan in Pyin Oo Lwin Township, Mandalay Region, yesterday, according to Social Welfare Associations.

Tuthitar Social Welfare Association from Pyin Oo Lwin Township said that two men, two women and around aged 10 child were stabbed to death at a poultry farm in Sikar Village.

“ The quintuple homicide murder took place in Sikar village situated in western part of Anisakhan airport. The reports said that the victims were poultry farm workers. There were two men, two women and a child. We found that the victims were stabbed to death at the farm. We sent dead bodies to the Pyin Oo Lwin People’s Hospital together with other social organizations from Pyin Oo Lwin Township. We don’t know about remaining detailed facts,” said unidentified official from Tuthitar Social Welfare Association from Anisakan.

The Anisakan police outpost under the Pyinsar Police Station already plans to take actions against the killers.