Burmese Official in Charge of Troubled Rakhine Town Stabbed to Death

An ethnic Rohingya Muslim child in a camp set up outside the city of Sittwe, in Rakhine State, Burma, on May 21, 2015. Malaysia ordered search and rescue missions on May 22 for thousands of boat people stranded at sea, as Myanmar hosted talks with US and Southeast Asian envoys on the migrant exodus from its shores. Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images

YANGON–A Burmese official who was the administrator of a town in troubled Rakhine state when seven people died there in rioting earlier this month has been stabbed and killed, the government said on Wednesday.

Police were treating the death of Bo Bo Min Theik as a case of personal enmity and it was not related to the violence in the region, said Zaw Htay, a government spokesman.