Student group that ambushed a motorcyclist stabbed in machete attack, one dead

Student group slaps a passing motorcyclist on the ear; one killed in knife attack

November 13

A fight between students near a transformer at the top of (7) Street in Thapyay Hla village, Set Hpu Taung village tract, Taungoo township, Bago Region, left one person dead, it is learned.

Around noon on November 11, three Grade 12 students who were walking approached two students riding a motorcycle and slapped them on the ear without provocation, leading to a stabbing, it is learned.

"The kids on the receiving end went up beside the two who were just riding along on their motorcycle and slapped them on the ear. The two on the motorcycle stopped and one of them got off and stabbed the one who slapped them. He had no time to do anything; he died on the spot," a local said.

Three friends from No. (4) Mile Basic Education High School — Sai Tun Aung, 17 (Grade-12), Zeya Htet Myat, 18 (Grade-12), and Maung Nyan Lin Aung (aka Thar Soe), 17 (Grade-11) — approached Aye Myat Naing, 17, and La Min Naing, 23, who were riding a motorcycle from the Htantabin side toward Taungoo, and slapped them on the ear without cause, leading to the stabbing, it is learned.

"Both of the kids on the motorcycle had knives with them. Nowadays, under the military regime, students ganging up and beating people happens all the time. The teachers at school only know how to play TikTok. They can't control the kids anymore," a local said.

The stabbing killed the student named Sai Tun Aung, and Taungoo township Police Station No. (3) has opened a case against Aye Myat Naing, 17, who did the stabbing (from The Phyu village, Doe Taung village tract), along with the motorcycle rider La Min Naing, 23 (from Nyaung Pin Hla village), under Penal Code Sections 302/114, it is learned.

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