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- By Guy Dinmore | Thursday, 28 May 2015
The Shan Human Rights Federation said a family in a stationary car was fired upon by troops apparently hidden behind the road, while a passing motorbike was also targeted. The incident occurred on the morning of April 14, the NGO said, adding that it had taken weeks to verify details.
A colonel acting as spokesperson for the Tatmadaw’s Public Relations and Psychological Warfare Department said he had no knowledge of the incident.
The shooting was reported to have happened near Mong Li village, which lies on the road from Lashio to Hsenwi, a major route for traffic to and from the Muse border crossing with China. Some international organisations have stopped using the road since fighting erupted in the Kokang region in February.
The Shan rights group said 40-year-old U Loong Hsu was killed instantly in a blast that hit his motorbike. His wife and passenger, Daw Nang Hseng, was wounded in the shoulder and leg.
Moments before, an explosion and gunfire hit a car with a family of three that had halted by the roadside while overtaking a convoy of army trucks to allow the motorbike to pass from the other direction. U Min Naing, the father and driver, was injured in his arm and leg. One of his three children in the back, 16-year-old Nang Khawn Nan, was wounded in the head.
“After the explosions, the car passengers saw about 20 Burmese troops carrying weapons coming out from the bushes at the side of the road where the local Mong Li spirit shrine was located,” the rights group said.
Nang Khawn Nan was operated in Lashio Hospital to have shrapnel removed, and then transferred to Mandalay Hospital for two more operations. The rights group said she is now able to speak but cannot move the left side of her body.
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