Sources from domestic journals said that the authorities didn't allow them to report this chilling news among Rangoon residents but they allowed only two weekly journals of 'Hmukin Shudaunt' (Crime View) and 'Hmukin Myinkwin' (Crime Scene) which are published every Monday.
"A police officer said that we could not report this news in our journal and we were not allowed to publish this news when we contacted the Kamayut police station over telephone," a local journal editor said on condition of anonymity.
"In fact we could write this news by citing only the official news and the advertisement that appeared in the newspaper. But they did not allow us even to do that," another domestic journal editor said.
He further said that they had submitted their news report to the censor board today and hoped the board would clear their news report this time since this news has appeared in their official paper and crime journals.
A man and four women were shot in their heads by unknown assassins in the evening at 126, Sein Le Kantha (Green Bank), Kamayut Township in the heavily guarded area close to the residence of detained democracy icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
The two weeklies which were allowed to report this news published the journals as supplementary copies and distributed today at Kyat 300 per copy with a circulation of 1,000 copies though these journals are published regularly on Mondays.
According to the police sources, about USD 90,000 (Kyat 100 million) is missing from the victims' house.
Well informed sources say that though the factory code and batch number were erased from the bullets used in the killing, these are believed to be manufactured by government defence industry (DI) factories.
All five victims will be cremated this evening in Yeway cemetery.
