Arakan News Agency
An Innocent Rohingya man was shot by an extremist Rakhine group in the forest nearby Duchiradan village in Maungdaw Township of Arakan State .
The Rohingya man named Faizullah s/o Omar Miah (Aged 45) and his 12-year-old son from Duchiradan village in Southern Maungdaw Township left from the village to gather firewood. They went into the forest in the east of the village.
While the father and son duo were gathering firewood in different places, suddenly four Rakhines extremist from Kin Chaung village arrived and took his son. The Rakhines were trying to kill the boy with a sword, but as the boy screamed the father came and tried to rescue his son from being killed by Rakhines.
While the father tried to rescue his son, he was shot and wounded in the left arm area. After the shooting the group Rakhines fled the scene.
The father and son came back to the village and informed the incident to village in-charge Sultan. The village in-charge took the victim to the Border Guard Police office based in Gawduthara village and the incident was filed to Police Major Nyein Chan Aye. No report of arrests of the Rakhine group has been heard of yet.
