Immigration officials abducted in Rakhine

26 December 2019
Immigration officials abducted in Rakhine

Three immigration officials who were returning to their unit after taking leave were abducted in Buthidaung on 24 December afternoon by members of the Arakan Army (AA), according to the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services, state media reported.

A boat carrying passengers, including the staff from the Immigration and Population Department, was headed to Taungbazar Village along the Mayyu River when it was stopped by a civilian at Kyaukyit village in Nanyargon village-tract.

When the boat anchored at the village, about five AA members dressed in civilian clothes checked the passengers at gunpoint and abducted the three civil servants, including Assistant Director of the Immigration and Population Department U Tin Myo Aung, and then released the boat.