02.05.2025 – (04:30 PM) Htate

On April 25, at around 6 pm, when Zaw Phyo Aung returned to Mandalay from Yangon, she explained in detail the time she would come to assassinate her husband and where he was sleeping. On the morning of April 27, Zaw Phyo Aung confessed to having entered U Aung Nay Myo’s bedroom and shot him dead. The police searched the apartment she had rented for Zaw Phyo Aung at Block (13), Uksat Raat, Dawna Bwa Ward, Aung Myay Thar San Township, and seized a SIGSAUER 9mm pistol, two cartridges, 28 cartridges, and a Scoopy motorcycle used in the assassination.

The perpetrator, Zaw Phyo Aung, is from Mawkyun Township, Ayeyarwady Region, where he is from. Further investigation revealed that he had fled to Taung Taing Kyung Wah Village, and the Ayeyarwady Region Police coordinated with the police to arrest him. On the morning of May 1, Ko Zaw Phyo Aung (33) (Ba) U San Myint was arrested in Taung Taing Kyung Wah Village.

In the incident, the security forces were able to investigate in detail the case of the wife’s murder of her husband in collaboration with a man with whom she was having an affair and falsely reporting it. The Myanmar Police Force announced that they are continuing to take effective action against the two arrested, Daw Shwe Sin Win and Ko Zaw Phyo Aung, in accordance with the law.