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)
