Taxi driver stabbed in violent robbery in Sanchaung

A taxi driver was stabbed in the neck by passengers who robbed him on Sunday afternoon in Sanchaung Township.

Ye Lin Ko described his attackers as three men in their early twenties, who he picked up at Kyimyidaing night market.

The driver said that, during their journey to Khatta Street, the group held him up at knife-point and took his cell phone along with K13,000.

His wounds are minor, according to the Global New Light of Myanmar.

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