NANG SENG NOM — The chair of a selection committee for village headmen was shot dead on June 6 in northern Shan State’s Kyaukme Township.

The chair of a selection committee for village headmen Kaw Shwe Win’s dead body at his farmThe chair of a selection committee for village headmen Kaw Shwe Win’s dead body at his farm.

Fifty-year-old Kaw Shwe Win was killed in Marn San village in Mong Tang village tract by an unidentified armed group while working on his farm.

“He had six gunshot wounds on his body,” a police officer from Kyaukme Myoma police station told SHAN, adding that the murder case is still open.

The officer said that Kaw Shwe Win was shot twice in the head, twice in the back, once in the abdomen and once in the face.

He was last seen by his wife, Nang Kham Aye, when they had lunch together at home that day before he was murdered.

Another villager was shot dead in Mong Ting village tract on January 22. In November of last year, the Mong Ting village headman and two other village headmen were shot and killed in a restaurant in Kyaukme.