People’s Defense Force (PDF) in Mandalay killed two police officers on Tuesday morning and confiscated a gun during a spontaneous attack.

PDF fighters in Mandalay kill two police officers in spontaneous attack

Members of the People’s Defense Force (PDF) in Mandalay killed two police officers on Tuesday morning and confiscated a gun during a spontaneous attack. Three fighters from the armed resistance group were riding in a car in Patheingyi Township when they saw the officers on a motorbike and decided to ram them, before stepping out of the vehicle and shooting them.

Bo Htun Tauk, a spokesperson for the group, contacted Myanmar Now on Friday to claim responsibility for the attack. 

“Usually there would be five bikes or so, so since it was just two policemen we said screw it and hit them with the car,” he said. The bike got thrown onto the pavement. They were a surveillance officer and a sergeant.”

He added: “This is a revolution. We have to destroy any of them in any number. We have to put an end to anyone that helps them.” 

Sergeant Aung Naing Win was killed on the spot, while the other officer, Htun Aung, died at the hospital.

They worked at the Patheingyi Township police station and were stationed at the Cooperative College, a police officer who has joined the Civil Disobedience Movement said, adding that they were shot on their way back from their lunch break.

“They hit them with the car, got out and shot them. One of the policemen stopped moving,” a woman who witnessed the killings told Myanmar Now.

The military council has not issued a statement on the deaths. The township police station did not answer a call seeking comment.