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Myanmar Police Probe String of Bomb Blasts
[An Nahar] Police in Myanmar said Monday they were investigating a series of mysterious kabooms that have left two people dead and several maimed in recent days.

A man and a woman were killed and another person was injured in an kaboom Friday at a guesthouse in the town of Taunggu about 65 kilometers (40 miles) from the capital Naypyidaw
...generally translated as royal capital, seat of the king or abode of kings because the general in charge had a massive ego. It was founded in 2002 because Rangoon was worn out. Traditionally, Naypyidaw was used as a suffix to the names of royal capitals, such as Mandalay, which was called Yadanabon Naypyidaw in Burmese...
, police said.

Two other devices went kaboom! in Yangon on Sunday -- one at a bus stop and another under a truck which maimed two teenagers, according to the authorities.

Two more makeshift devices were found in the cities of Yangon and Mandalay on Monday.

"We cannot say who is responsible for these acts," said Police Lieutenant General Min Aung of the Myanmar Police Force's intelligence and security department.

"We're still investigating. The system they used is the same in all the cases. We think an organization or a person planted them all," he told Agence La Belle France Presse by telephone from Naypyidaw.

He said security had been stepped up in Yangon.

Bomb blasts were relatively common under the former junta, which usually blamed the kabooms on armed exile groups or ethnic rebels.

But such kabooms are less common under a new quasi-civilian government which took power in 2011, promising political reforms and efforts to end long-running ethnic insurgencies.

Posted by: Fred 2013-10-15
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