File photo : People gather outside the embassy of Thailand to get visas in Yangon on February 16,//AFP
Yangon, Myanmar – Two people were killed in a crush outside a passport office in Myanmar on Monday, a rescue worker said, as thousands rush to leave the country to escape a junta military service law.
Two women aged 52 and 39 died early Monday after hundreds of people surged to get in line at the passport office in second city Mandalay, a rescue worker who arrived at the scene told AFP.
“There was a ditch near the crowd. They fell into the ditch and died from a lack of oxygen,” the rescue officer said, requesting anonymity for security reasons.
Another woman was slightly injured, the officer said, adding that all three had been selling tokens assigning numbers in the queue.
Local media also reported the deaths.
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