Straits Times April 30, 2008 Wednesday
YANGON - AUTHORITIES in military-ruled Myanmar have arrested two men after a rare bank heist in early April left the supervisor dead and two other staff injured, state media reported on Wednesday.
The New Light of Myanmar, an English-language daily, said the pair had been on the run for 20 days after their raid on the state-owned Myanma Economic Bank in the country's biggest city Yangon.
'The two men were ex-convicts who had committed murder and slashing and were on the run,' the newspaper said.
A bank supervisor died from stab wounds in the April 8 robbery, the paper said, but did not reveal if the two men actually managed to take any money.
'As they found it difficult to live their life, they entered the bank for stealing, but had to scuffle with the bank employees,' the paper said, adding that 'action is being taken against them according to law.'
Although impoverished Myanmar has been at civil war for about six decades, violent crime in Yangon is extremely rare.
Ordinary citizens are not allowed to own weapons, and firearms are strictly controlled by the regime.
In March, five people were killed in execution-style shootings in the wealthy Yangon neighbourhood where democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is under house arrest.
The assailants stole about 200,000 dollars worth of goods, and are still believed to be at large. -- AFP
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