Police have found the belongings, including several bullets, of two suspects who attempted to hold up a currency exchange shop last week.
On Saturday, a man wearing a green surgical face mask entered the Farmer Money Changer, located near the 9th Mile Ocean Center, and asked to change US$30. After receiving MMK41,000, he said that he was still owed K200, and tried to get behind the counter. When the employees wouldn’t open the door, he took out a gun armed with a silencer. When the employees still refused to let him in, he fired the gun at the counter window and ran out of the shop.
Another suspect was waiting outside on a motorcycle, and the two fled without any cash. No one was physically harmed in the attack.
Police reviewed CCTV footage immediately after the attack, but was unable to find any concrete evidence indicating the suspects’ identities.
On Sunday afternoon, YCDC employees cleaning out a trash bin on the Inya Lake bank found two suspicious black plastic bags, one of which contained a black backpack, reports 7Day. When they opened the backpack and the other plastic bag, they found several items including some bullets, a pair of motorcycle keys, two sim cards, and three rolls of tape inside.
Authorities were later able to verify that the backpack and the objects belonged to the two suspects.
A case has been opened against the suspects under Sections 114, 307, 393, and 427 of the Penal Code, and police say they have also set up ‘checkpoints’ around the city.
