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Myanmar robbers kill 5 in Suu Kyi's neighbourhood


    YANGON (Reuters) - Armed robbers killed five people in a high-security Yangon suburb where Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi lives under house arrest, officials said on Tuesday.

    The family-of-four and their maid were found shot dead intheir home on Seinlei Kantha Street, a five-minute drive fromSuu Kyi's tightly-guarded house on University Avenue.

    The leafy neighbourhood is also home to a state guesthouseexpected to be used by U.N. special envoy to Myanmar, IbrahimGambari, when he visits the former Burma on Thursday.

    "The robbers killed them with a 9 mm pistol. We cannot giveany further information because the investigation is stillgoing on," a source close to the case said.

    The dead family -- a mother, father and their two daughters-- owned a Japanese restaurant on University Avenue, the sourcesaid.

    (Reporting by Aung Hla Tun; Editing by Darren Schuettlerand Alex Richardson)