A WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION vehicle carrying swabs from patients to be tested for coronavirus came under gunfire in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state an...
Members of the Myanmar Red Cross society move a dead body from a boat to an ambulance that will transport to Sittwe Hospital, in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 21 April 2020. — Reutersvehicle carrying swabs from patients to be tested for coronavirus came under gunfire in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state and the driver was killed, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
The driver, Pyae Sone Win Maung, had died in the state’s Minbya township on Monday, the United Nations office in Myanmar said in a Facebook post. Government troops and insurgents from the Arakan Army, which wants greater autonomy for Myanmar’s western region, have been locked in fierce fighting for more than a year, but clashes have intensified recently.
“They are working for us, for our country. We have the responsibility for that... Everyone who has a brain knows that. If you are a Myanmar citizen, you shouldn’t ask that.”The driver’s father, Htay Win Maung, said his son, aged 28, had worked for the WHO in Sittwe for three years.by telephone. “I am trying to calm myself thinking he died in serving his duty at the frontline. He went there in the midst of fighting when many people didn’t dare to go.
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