Four young people including a married couple and a displaced person drown while swimming at Kantharyar Beach

Four young people, including a married couple and a war displaced person, drown while bathing at Kantharyar beach

October 29

Four young people, including a married couple and one war-displaced person, drowned while bathing and playing in the water at Kantharyar pond in Gwa Township, Rakhine State, local residents told the media.

Around 3 pm yesterday, October 28, three local youths and one youth displaced by war from Ayeyarwady Region went to bathe in Kantharyar pond near Kantharyar village in Gwa Township and drowned, it is reported.

"Two were a married couple, one was a war-displaced person, and one was a young girl — they drowned while bathing together. There were two girls and two boys. When they were pulled out, all the bodies were recovered. They have just been buried," a local woman said.

The drowning victims were Ko Tun Lin Aung, 24, Ma Thet Hnin Wai, 20, and Ma May Poe Eain, 17, from Kantharyar village, and Maung Zaw Nay Thway, 14, who had come from Letpanchaung Township in Ayeyarwady Region to take refuge in Gwa Township from the war, it is learned.

The deceased were buried at the village cemetery this morning, it is learned, and on October 27, Daw Aye Aye Myint, 35, who had fled from Kyaukphyu Township to Taungup Township to escape the war, also drowned and died in a village pond.

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