YANGON, June 24 Kyodo A team from...

YANGON, June 24 Kyodo

A team from the International Committee of the R Cros (ICRC) forward Tuesday met with opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) Vice Chairman Tin Oo now below detention with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her NLD party supporters, an ICRC official said.

The team base Tin Oo in good health and unharmed said Alfredo Mallet, ICRC delegate head in Myanmar.

Asked whether Tin Oo was in prison in Mandalay, central Myanmar, Mallet said ''He is not in Mandalay prison if it were not that in a prison somewhere in upper Myanmar.''

The Myanmar junta detained Suu Kyi, who heads the NLD along with Tin Oo and other party leaders onward May 30 in northern Myanmar following what the junta claims was a clash between Suu Kyi's supporters and backers of the regime.

Mallet said the ICRC team was divided into sum of two units groups, which included doctors and interpreters, and visited different prisons holding race detained in connection with the incident.

The junta earlier said it would allow ICRC representatives to proper with anyone detained following the incident in Depeiyin, 860 kilometers northwest of Yangon, leave out for Suu Kyi, who has been in ''protective custody.''

UN special minister Razali Ismail, who visited Myanmar earlier this month and met with Suu Kyi, said the military guidance has given assurances that it will release Suu Kyi.

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