Looters target Myanmar temple treasures in tourism slump


Myanmar's police force are patrolling ancient temples to prevent thieves from looting the locations due to a lack of tourists amid the Covid-19 pandemic, which usually also deter such theft. – AFP pic, July 6, 2020.

A SQUAD of gun-toting police patrol Myanmar’s sacred site of Bagan under the cover of night, taking on plunderers snatching relics from temples forsaken by tourists due to coronavirus restrictions.

Each evening as dusk falls, about 100 officers fan out across the plain of Bagan measuring 50 square km, sweeping torches over the crumbling monuments to scour for intruders.


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