Woman Shot by Myanmar Police During Anti-Coup Protest Declared Brain Dead
The 20-year-old collapsed abruptly after being shot during Tuesday’s protest. / Facebook
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By San Yamin Aung 10 February 2021
Ma Mya Thwet Thwet Khine, a 20-year-old student who was shot in the head by a police officer during an anti-coup protest in Naypyitaw on Tuesday, was pronounced brain dead that night.
Video footage that has gone viral on Facebook shows that she made no attempt to get past the police barricades at the scene. She collapsed abruptly after being struck in the head by a bullet while taking cover from water cannons under a bus-stop shelter.