Police hunt British teacher after colleague battered to death on night out boozing in Myanmar
MYANMAR cops are searching for a British teacher after his colleague was found dead following a night of drinking in downtown Yangon.
Local police said the 47-year-old victim, also a British man, was found dead inside his co-worker’s apartment with wounds on his head and chest.
The victim’s wife told officers the pair had been out drinking on Friday night and that she had been unable to reach her husband the following morning.
She contacted authorities on Sunday after reportedly discovering his body inside his 25-year-old colleague’s apartment in Yangon’s downtown riverside district.
“The victim and defendant are school teachers from Horizon International School and they are friends,” a local officer told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The 25 year-old was being sought by police and remained at large, he added.
Violent crimes involving foreigners are rare in Myanmar, a former junta-run country that still has a small though swiftly-growing expatriate community and tourism industry.
A spokesman for the Foreign Office said: “We are providing help and support to the
family of a British national following a death in Rangoon, Burma, and are in
touch with the local authorities.”
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