Ringleaders in fatal attacks in Dak Lak held, ethnic tension motive probed


The aftermath of the attacks on the Ea Ktur Commune People's Committee HQ. — VNA/VNS

HANOI (Vietnam News/Asia News Network): The Ministry of Public Security on Friday (June 16) provided a briefing on the violent gun attacks on local administration's headquarters building in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak last Sunday (June 11) that claimed the lives of nine people and injured two others.

Major General Dang Hong Duc, Chief of Office of the public security ministry, stated that at around 0:35am on June 11, two armed groups (from different localities in Dak Lak) broke into and attacked the people's committees buildings of the two communes Ea Ktur and Ea Tieu (Cu Kuin District), using knives, guns, petrol bombs and hand grenades.

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