YANGON, June 24 (Xinhua) -- No casualties were claimed for bomb blasts which rocked two main cities of Myanmar -- Mandalay and Nay Pyi Taw respectively on Friday noon, according to eyewitnesses and official sources.
The authorities are investigating the cause of the incidents.
The two bomb blasts took place at some intervals of time at a jeep parking near the Zay Cho Market in Mandalay city and in a house near the Tha Pyay Gone Market in Nay Pyi Taw around 11:30 a. m. (local times).
The house was slightly damaged with roof broken, while the car was destroyed.
The bomb blasts were the third in a series over the past two months with the first blowing up a carriage of an express passenger train on Yangon-Mandalay route near Nay Pyi Taw on May 18, in which two people including a woman were killed, while nine others were injured.
The second blast happened at a toilet at the Myoma Market in Nay Pyi Taw on June 10, injuring three people including a woman.
Both of the two bombers in the two previous incidents have been reportedly found out by the authorities. The bomber who launched the attack on the train was exposed as Kyaw Di, who admitted the task was assigned by the anti-government ethnic armed group of Kayin National Union (KNU), while the latter bomber was Aung Ko Latt, who confessed that he had received a sum of three million Kyats (about 4,000 U.S. dollars) from the KNU for the attack.
Source: Xinhua
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