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2 women suffocate in crammed queue outside Myanmar passport office

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The two women died at about 2 a.m. on Tuesday as people jostled for position outside of a passports issuing office in Mandalay. The deaths illustrate the anxiety widely felt ahead of the military junta's upcoming enforcement of a mandatory conscription law. Thousands of people have been arriving at around midnight each night to line up near a barbed wire fenced area.

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2 women suffocate in crammed queue outside Myanmar passport office

Two women who were caught in a crowded pre-dawn queue at a government passports office in Mandalay died of suffocation as several thousand people who hope to leave the country in the coming weeks crammed together inside a fenced-in area. The deaths illustrate the anxiety widely felt ahead of the military junta’s upcoming enforcement of a mandatory conscription law. The two women – Khin Myo Aye, 52, and Khaing Wai, 39 – died at about 2 a.m. on T…

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