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A legal adviser to Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy was assassinated outside a busy airport on Sunday amid heightened communal tensions in the Buddhist majority country.
Ko Ni, a Burmese Muslim and a long-standing adviser to the country's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, was shot in the head by a lone gunman outside Yangon International Airport after returning from a government-led trip to Indonesia.
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Footage of Myanmar security forces hitting and kicking a Rohingya villager has sparked concern for the people, and criticism of leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
Police arrested a suspected 53-year-old gunman as he attempted to run away.
Witnesses said a taxi driver who chased the gunman was also shot.
Police said the gunman, who was being interrogated late Sunday night, was from Mandalay but gave no further details.
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While the motive for the assassination was not immediately known Mr Ko Ni's death will rattle the nerves of minority Muslims as Myanmar's army wages a brutal crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in western Rakhine state.
With Mr Ko Ni in the delegation to Indonesia were several Myanmar Muslim leaders, including Rohingya.
Ko Ni, an adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi, has been shot dead. Photo: Facebook
Myanmar's government has denied reports of widespread human rights abuses in Rakhine, saying the security forces are responding to attacks by Muslim extremists.
Mr Ko Ni was a practising lawyer who had handled more than 900 criminal cases and 1,400 civil cases.