A 19-year-old young man was shot and killed by the Pyu Saw Htee members in Pandaung Township in Pyay District, according to the locals.

Residents said that the youth slain by the Pyu Saw Htee members was 19-year-old Maung Than Htike Aung aka A Nge Kaung.

“The two brothers were sitting on the foundation platform under the bridge. Militiamen from the same village accused them as PDFs and opened fire. The bullet did not hit the elder one”, an altruist said. The bullet directly hit the younger brother’s head and died, he added.

The two brothers were shot by the Pyu Saw Htee members at around 11:00 PM on October 6, while they were sitting under the bridge which is located on Pyay-Toungup highway Road, western part of the Nyaung Chay Htauk Village.

The body was returned to the family, but there were pressures to bury or cremate the body quickly and to hold the funeral uncrowded, according to the kins and the family members.  

Due to such pressures, the body had to be cremated at the Nyaung Chay Htauk Cemetery, at around 11:00 AM of October 7, some insiders said.

Both brothers, not PDFs, were shot while resting under a bridge, scavenging for metal scraps.

No case was filed regarding the death of the young man. The dead body was cremated under certain conditions intervened and negotiated by the Regional Military Command Headquarters in Pyay.

At the end of August, the workers of a charcoal furnace in Pandaung Township were accused of being PDFs and beaten up by the Pyu Saw Htee members.

The leader of the Pyu Saw Htee clan in Pandaung Township is a charcoal business operator hence suppressed and arrested the business rivals under the accusation of being PDFs, the locals said.