Heavily armed Chinese men held in Myanmar over killing in Kokang
Eight Chinese men with apparent military training were caught with weapons in Myanmar last month and are being questioned in prison, Myanmar's Foreign Ministry has confirmed.
Eight armed Chinese men have been arrested in Myanmar and are being questioned in prison, the country's Foreign Ministry has confirmed. A newspaper earlier reported that the men, who appeared to have undergone military training, had allegedly killed a man.
Police seized the car, eight weapons, 1,860 rounds of ammunition, 31 grenades, three military knives and other arms, the English-language Eleven Media Group in Myanmar reported.
It added that one of the men arrested, the car's driver, identified as Han Lu Lu, told police they had undergone military training at a village in the Kokang region bordering China.
A report last month in the state-run New Light of Myanmar, provided by the country's ministry of Foreign Affairs in response to a request for comment, concurred with much of the Eleven Media Group report. Its report said police had arrested the suspects after a 15-minute car chase. It said the men had driven off after allegedly killing a man, possibly a soldier, in Kokang.
It was unclear from the report (and the government did not clarify) whether the slain man was a member of Myanmar's military or one of the militias currently active in Kokang.