Robbers stole nearly 20 million kyat in cash from a construction materials shop on 26th Street and Merchant Road in Yangon City’s Pabedan Township on 2 November.

Three men with knives entered the shop at 6:30 pm and attacked the owners whilst they were doing the accounts.

According to local reports the robbers threatened the owners with the knives and made them put the money into the robbers’ rucksacks.

A Pabedan resident said: "One of the victims was taken to hospital with stab wounds to his thigh after being threatened and attacked with a knife and the other was slightly injured.”

Mizzima rang Pabedan Township Police Station several times to enquire about the incident, but no one answered the phone.

Myanmar has been deteriorating since the junta took power after the February 2021 coup, and crime rates have been rising.

An elderly couple was found murdered in their house in Yangon’s Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township on 30 October after being attacked by suspected burglars.

In mid-October, the body of an eight-year-old girl who had been raped and murdered was found in a drain in Yangon’s Dagon South Township.