Myanmar party official dies after arrest, hundreds escape night raid

Myanmar has regularly shut down the internet in the early-morning hours, making it difficult to get information

Myanmar authorities cordoned off part of the commercial capital of Yangon on Monday night while searching for student protesters, drawing international condemnation as crowds defied a curfew to resist the crackdown.

Embassies of the US, UK, Canada, Germany and others sent tweets late on Monday warning that security forces had surrounded a group of young people in the Sanchaung neighborhood of Yangon. People in surrounding areas swarmed the streets as videos of the situation spread on social media.

Meanwhile, an official from adeposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) died in custody after he was arrested early