A Muslim man and his 8-year old son was killed by artillery that villagers believed was fired by Myanmar military in the country’s Rakhine state.
Local police officer confirmed that an artillery shell hit a home in Muslim-majority Alekyun village in Kyauk Taw Township on Tuesday, killing two Muslim villagers and wounding another.
“U Schaw Bee, his son and younger brother were in home when the shell hit it,” the officer from Kyauk Taw police station told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday, using a Myanmar honorific prefix (U) for older man.
“The father and his son died at the spot while brother was just injured,” said the officer on a condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.
The death was also reported on Wednesday by the local Narinjara news service, which mostly covers news from Rakhine, citing village tract administrator Win Hla Tun.
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