Border News Agency
Kyauktaw, July 26.

In Kyauktaw Township, which is under the control of the Arakan Army (AA), a woman was stabbed to death during a robbery on July 24, and the robbers took four kyat of gold and 1.5 million kyats in cash, according to local villagers.

The victim was Daw Win Nu Yi, a woman in her early fifties from Pyine Chaung Village, Kyauktaw Township.

Villagers said she was killed during a knife attack while she was sleeping alone on the night of July 24.

Her husband, U Tun Hla Sein, reportedly found the body of Daw Win Nu Yi who had died from stab wounds to the chest and a slashed neck when he returned home from the fields on July 25.

“Her husband was staying in the cattle shed with the cows. He had been sleeping there for quite some time. When morning came and he returned home from the shed, he didn’t see his wife. He didn’t hear any sound either, so he went upstairs to look for her. That was when he found her dead with injuries. The drawers were open, and clothes were scattered everywhere. The money and gold were missing. It was a robbery and murder. Their house compound is large, so no one knew when the robbery took place, especially since it was raining heavily at the time,” a resident of Pyine Chaung Village told Border News Agency.

Villagers said that four kyat of gold and 1.5 million kyats in cash, which had been sent by her children living abroad, were also taken from Daw Win Nu Yi.

They added that she was buried on July 25.

The perpetrator of the stabbing and murder is still unknown, but family members said they have filed a case with the Arakan People’s Government, calling for the case to be brought to light and for effective action to be taken.

In the first week of July, the home of Kyaw Thet Hlaing, a rice mill owner in Kwam Ohn Chaung Village, Kyauktaw Township, was also robbed by armed burglars, who took ten kyat of gold and some cash.