By Feng Yingqiu
YANGON, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar government is continuing to make urgent investigation into the case of assassinating a prominent legal advisor of the ruling party U Ko Ni.
Security measures are being specially tightened in the country.
The gunman's assassination plot on U Ko Ni is assessed to aim at destabilizing the nation according to initial investigation, said the President's Office.
U Ko Ni, legal advisor of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party and an advocate, was gunned down at the Yangon international Airport on Jan. 29 afternoon upon his arrival back from a senior leadership program in Indonesia's Jakarta.
He was shot in the head by a pistol at a close distance at the airport's taxi stand near arrival terminal-1.
The gunman also killed a taxi driver who had tried to capture him before he was arrested by the police and bystanders.
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