Arakan News Agency
A taxi driver was also reportedly shot and killed, according to AFP.
U Ko Ni was returning from Indonesia where he was part of a delegation attending a senior leadership meeting in Jakarta. He was waiting at the taxi station at the airport at around 4:30pm when he was shot in the head and killed.
“It is a very sorrowful thing for Myanmar, and a very big loss for the country, I have to say,” U Win Htein told .
According to a police report obtained, the suspected shooter is a 53-year-old man from Mandalay. The suspect has been arrested and is being questioned by police. No motive is yet known for the killing.
U Ko Ni was a prominent lawyer and a patron of the recently formed Myanmar Muslim Lawyers Association.
A student activist dating back to the uprising of 1988, Ko Ni was a political prisoner and then, once released, a senior lawyer and adviser to the NLD.
