Police Accept Criminal Complaint in Acid Attack Case in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady Region

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Police Accept Criminal Complaint in Acid Attack Case in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady Region
2020-03-20

Myanmar police have accepted a criminal complaint by a businesswoman who was the victim of an acid attack in Ayeyarwady region, five months after she reported the assault that severely burned her face and caused her to lose sight in one eye, she told RFA on Friday.

Leh Leh Win, the 30-year-old victim who filed the complaint on March 19 at Pantanaw Myoma Police Station, said she believes that the vicious attack that occurred outside her downtown home on Oct. 24 was carried out by two local residents with the assistance of two police officers.

“The head of the township police station said cases against two suspected policemen and the two civilians would be filed separately, but I didn’t agree to it,” she told RFA’s Myanmar Service, without elaborating on how the officers may have been involved in the crime.

Read more at: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/acid-attack-03202020171333.html