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Imam kidnapped, home robbed in Maungdaw Twsp
A Muslim preacher was abducted and his home was robbed in Maungdaw Township’s Ngan Chaung village in the early hours of October 2.
02 Oct 2021
DMG Newsroom
2 October 2021, Maungdaw
A Muslim preacher was abducted and his home was robbed in Maungdaw Township’s Ngan Chaung village in the early hours of October 2.
“They robbed gold items and cash. One of the family members was injured,” said Arli Baw Tu, a resident of Ngan Chuang village, a Muslim community in northern Maungdaw Township.
The robbers stole gold items weighing about 25 ticals in total and about K400,000 in cash, as well as kidnapping the 47-year-old imam Swarli Mulla.
DMG made multiple phone calls to U Win Htay, the Ngan Chaung village head, seeking comment on the robbery, but he could not be reached.
According to a police report about the incident, some 15 people forcibly entered the house by breaking down the door, with a handful of men who entered the bedroom threatening Swarli Mulla’s wife and demanding that she hand over the couple’s gold items and money.
Police are searching for Swarli Mulla and his kidnappers, it said.
The head of Padin village, another Muslim community in Maungdaw Township, was abducted in mid-August and released on September 3 after promising to pay his captors a ransom of 300,0000 Bangladeshi taka ($3,500). A “dacoit group” led by a man named Abdullah Kane was accused of being behind that abduction.
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