Three teenagers beat a motorcycle taxi rider in Pantanaw and looted all his belongings

Three teenagers beat a motorcycle taxi driver in Pantanaw and robbed him of all his belongings

October 20

In Pantanaw Township, Ayeyarwady Region, a motorcycle taxi driver was beaten and robbed while carrying passengers on his motorcycle, it is reported.

The robbery took place around 1 p.m. on October 19 in a secluded area between Pyanpalot Village and Pitauk Chaung Village in Pantanaw Township, Maubin District, Ayeyarwady Region, and the perpetrators were teenagers, it is reported.

"That day, three youths aged 16 and 17 hired him to take them somewhere. Ko Kyin Maung Maung kindly gave them a ride. When they reached a secluded spot, they ganged up on him and beat and robbed him. When he lost consciousness, they threw him into a ditch," a local motorcycle taxi driver said.

The victim is Ko Kyin Maung Maung, 40, who lives in Maran Village, Pantanaw Township. The robbers seized him from behind by the neck, brutally beat him with sticks and bamboo poles, choked him, kicked him in the stomach and groin, and threw him into a roadside ditch, taking everything including his motorcycle, phone, money, ID card and the lottery tickets he was selling, it is reported.

Due to the group beating, Ko Kyin Maung Maung suffered a broken jaw, fractures to his forearm and hand bones, and serious injuries to his chest and pelvis, and also required seven stitches to his head, it is reported.

Currently, because his injuries are severe, he has been transferred from Pantanaw Hospital to Yangon General Hospital, and the perpetrators have not yet been arrested, it is reported.

MyoTaw News Channel