13 October

AA group stopped a Shwepyith-it  express  bus  near  mile-post  127 of MraukU-Sittway road in Rakhine State MraukU Town-ship and abducted 19 Fire Department  personnel  and  12  passengers on the bus on the morning of 11 October.

The  express  bus  6J/xxxx  carrying 31 passengers, 19 Rakhine  State  Fire  Department  personnel and 12 civilians, was driven  by  U  Nyi  Nyi  Hein  of  Mandalay Region Chanmyathazi Township’s Aungpinle Ward together  with  assistant  U  Ko  Oo and bus attendant U Myint Soe @ Yamin Soe. The express bus left Mandalay for Sittway on the afternoon of 10 October and on reaching mile-post 127 at about 9:50 am on 11 October it  stopped  for  a  man  in  civilian  cloth  at  the  roadside  who  was signaling the bus to stop. Once  the  bus  stopped  about  18 armed men from AA group in  sportswear  emerged  from  the forest and abducted the 31 passengers into the forest. As the driver, driver assistant and bus  attendant  were  released  with the express bus, the bus arrived in Sittway later.

AA group was conducting acts  of  disrupting  peace  and  rule of law as well as abducting public  servants  and  innocent  civilians,  according  to  news  released  by  Myanmar  Police  Force. 

MNA(Translated by Zaw Min)