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| Southeast Asia |
| Myanmar Muslim killed after speaking to reporters |
| 2016-12-24 |
| [Al Jazeera] The headless body of a Moslem villager has been found days after he spoke to news hounds on a rare government-guided media tour of restive northern Rakhine state, Myanmar police said on Friday. Police did not give a motive for the killing of the 41-year-old man, whose body was found floating in a river, but said he spoke to Burmese journalists on Wednesday in Ngakhura village. "On Thursday his family said he had disappeared after giving interviews to journalists," Police Colonel Thet Naing in Maungdaw town told AFP news agency. "This afternoon [Friday] I got the report his headless body was found... We have confirmed from villagers that it is him," he said. Myanmar soldiers have taken control of the dangerous and remote region bordering Bangladesh since October 9 when gunnies raided police posts, killing nine officers. Troops have killed more than 80 people in Rakhine since the start of crackdown, according to official figures. |
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