Narinajara - 6/24/2008
Sittwe: A three-member family in Sittwe, the capital of Arakan State, committed suicide by taking poison after they had been suffering from hunger, according to a relative.
He said, "I was very sorry when I saw the tragedy that took place on June 16."
The family died after eating rice that was mixed with poison at 11 am on the day, at their house in Ghaha Gi Line, Plot 11, in Sittwe's Mingan Ward.
According to a local source, local people rushed to the house soon after they heard that the family was taking poison, but when they reached the home, the family members were already laying dead near their rice plates.
The deceased family members have been identified as U Maung Ba Oo, 39 years old, his eight-year-old daughter, and five-year-old son. U Maung Ba Oo worked as a rickshaw puller in Sittwe.
The relative said that U Maung Ba Oo first mixed the poison in his daughter's rice and fed her, and then fed poison rice to his son. He mixed his own rice with the poison at ate it last.
Before committing suicide, U Maung Ba Oo and his children had been facing starvation for many days because the money he was earning was insufficient for their survival.
An elder said that a rickshaw puller's daily income is around 900 to 1,000 kyat per day in Sittwe, and that it is not enough for three people to survive on. So rickshaw puller Maung Ba Oo chose the way of suicide.
It was also learned that U Maung Ba Oo's wife passed away last year and he had been raising his son and daughter on his own.#
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