2 Rakhine sisters killed in Yangon, culprit arrested by police

Two Rakhine sisters were killed in an apartment of Tamwe township under Yangon locality after robberies on Thursday.  

Bodies of both the women were found in the 8 floor apartment of house no 15 during the morning hours.

A woman close to the victims said that she heard about the incident and expressed grief that both were stabbed to death.

“I heard that the elder sister was stabbed first. Later when the younger one returned home, she was also targeted. Both hailed from Thandwe township of Rakhine State,” she said, adding that the younger victim (Daw May Sanda Htwe, 48) used to work in pharmaceutical company.

The elder one, identified as Daw Mary Tin (62), was a retired teacher.

Another female neighbor revealed that the person who killed them is a rickshaw puller.

He was close to them and often came to the apartment. The victims even gave him the gate’s key.

So he could easily enter their apartment and stabbed the elder sister in the bathroom and the youngest one in the middle room.

The killer has already been arrested by the police and both the bodies were sent to Rayway cemetery.

A Rakhine woman living in Kyauk Kansan ward expressed her worry that no one in the Yangon apartments are safe now-a-days.

Narinjara News tried to contact the Tamwe police station but no response resulted.

Myanmar continues witnessing more incidents of killings, robberies and burglaries since the military coup, where Yangon records the worst.