"Myanmar Army soldiers gunned down a villager as he returned home from fishing in war-ravaged Rakhine state, the latest in a series of civilian killings, with troops saying the man failed to follow instructions at a security checkpoint, the victim’s father said Wednesday. Tuesday’s shooting occurred a day after a local World Health Organization employee died from wounds sustained when gunmen fired on him and another health worker Monday as they drove through the same township. An employee of a pest control company also died after being shot in the head in a separate incident on Tuesday. Kyaw Win Chey, who was in his early thirties, was returning home to May Lwan village in Minbya township after fishing in a river near his community when Myanmar soldiers shot him dead, his father Kyaw Hla Oo told RFA’s Myanmar Service. “Yesterday my son went to the Kangpaing Chaung area to go fishing,” he said. “He was coming home when we heard the gunshots. He must have met the soldiers as he entered the village [because] the soldiers shot him at the edge of the village. His mother witnessed it.” Following the incident, Myanmar’s military commander-in-chief’s office issued a statement saying that security forces fired warning shots after Kyaw Win Chey failed to stop his motorbike and kept going through the checkpoint. Soldiers who inspected Kyaw Win Chey’s body found a Chinese made grenade and a knife in a toolbox on the motorbike, according to the office’s statement..."