Three people were killed and five others injured in a fire at a hand-powered oil well in Pauk Township, Magway Region, the Ministry of Home Affairs reported.
The security personnel from No 1 Checkpoint in Maungtaw on patrol along the Naf River found a suspicious-looking boat heading towards Bangladesh. They signaled the boat for inspection but it fled. The authorities chased three men on the boat and managed to arrest one man along with a package believed to be drugs near Zipinchaung Village.
A man drowned when a boat anchored in the waters near “Seikgyipyin jetty sunk in Pyinnge village-tract in the township of Myeik in Taninthayi Region yesterday.
