Search for Dhammazedi Bell ends
The Dhammazedi Bell search team yesterday terminated its mission, after the failure to find the mystic bell in the past month.
San Lin, the team leader, announced that the search was over.
The 400-year-old bell weighed nearly 300 tonnes.
San Lin has been heavily criticised in the past weeks for sparking false hopes. Weeks after the search began on August 8, he announced that the bell was found under the riverbed of the Yangon River. However, no further evidence was disclosed.
Thant Nyunt, a diver, on September 12 said that what they found was a shipwreck not the bell. Two days later, revered monk, Sayadaw Natsin Tayar, a member of Mon Literature and Culture Organisation as the spokesperson of the search team, said that San Lin should not have given the public a lie.
Tomorrow, another member of the search team, Win Myint, will host a press conference. San Lin is not expected to show up.
The search team earlier announced that well-wishers who provided the Ks 13 million fund to finance the search could retrieve their money. It was reported that none of them showed up to reclaim the money.
Kyi Win, a member of the team, said that there are 132 of them.
