Rebels Dressed as Soccer Players Abduct Bus Passengers in Myanmar

Title: 

Rebels Dressed as Soccer Players Abduct Bus Passengers in Myanmar

Sub-title: 

Gunmen stopped the vehicle on a highway outside the town of Mrauk U and seized 31 people, most of them firefighters, the authorities said.

Description: 

"Gunmen dressed in soccer uniforms halted an express bus on a main highway in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine State and kidnapped 31 people, most of them firefighters, the authorities said on Sunday. The abduction happened Friday morning, and began when a man stepped onto the highway in the bus’s path outside the ancient town of Mrauk U and forced it to stop, according to a military spokesman, Col. Win Zaw Oo. More than 10 armed men in soccer uniforms, identified as members of a rebel group called the Arakan Army, then emerged from the jungle and boarded the bus, he said. They ordered the passengers to take their belongings and marched them away...."

Creator/author: 

Saw Nang, Richard C. Paddock

Source/publisher: 

"The New York Times" (USA)

Date of Publication: 

2019-10-13

Date of entry: 

2019-10-20

Grouping: 

  • Individual Documents

Category: 

Countries: 

Myanmar

Administrative areas of Burma/Myanmar: 

Rakhine State

Language: 

English

Resource Type: 

text

Text quality: 

    • Good

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