While @ASEAN leaders and #Myanmar's junta leader were having the meeting, more deaths were reported. @Myanmar_Now_Eng reported that a man was shot dead and taken away by the military in the second largest city Mandalay on Saturday. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar myanmar-now.org/en/news/man-sh…
"At around 10:30am on Saturday, regime forces began stopping motorcycles to search under their seats and seize their owners’ phones. To distract them, a young man started setting tires on fire at the corner of 65th and 107th streets."
“They were checking people and he was trying to distract them. But he didn’t know there were police in plain clothes nearby,” a witness said.
When the police saw what he was doing, they started shooting. He was running away when he was hit at least twice, in the head and the stomach, on 64th Street.
When the police arrived, they began beating the man, who appeared to be motionless, and then dragged him away to a car.
When the police arrived, they began beating the man, who appeared to be motionless, and then dragged him away to a car.
“He couldn’t move after being shot. But they kept on beating him and saying, ‘Do you want to keep setting things on fire?’ They took him to a car and washed the blood off the street themselves,” the witness added.
Meanwhile, the junta’s armed forces also shot at least one person in Mandalay’s Maha Aungmyay Township on Saturday morning. That incident occurred after soldiers dispersed a group of protesters and continued firing on them as they fled into a residential area.
According to a rescue worker, one 20-year-old resident of the neighbourhood was shot in the back and chest and at least five protesters were arrested.
“He was not part of the protest. He was from the neighbourhood,” said the rescue worker, who added that he had heard that some of the detained protesters were beaten before they were taken away.
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