No casualties has been reported in a series of four bomb blasts in Myanmar's border town of Tachilek in eastern Shan state, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Tuesday.
The first bomb went off Monday before dawn near the Paradise Hotel in Tachilek, damaging the hotel's staff quarter, while the other three bombs exploded in five minutes' intervals at the foot of a tree near a tea shop and the mangrove near the tree respectively, the report said.
The incidents, which are under investigation, took place two days after the authorities warned against more possible sabotage in the country in the wake of bomb blasts earlier this year.
There have been a number of bomb blasts in Myanmar since January this year. The Jan. 11 blast in the new capital of Nay PyiTaw rocked a public toilet in the compound of staff quarters near Pyinmana Railway Station, killing the bomber herself.
A second blast in Phyu, Bago division on the same day took place when a circus show was being held at a football ground, killing a man and wounding three women and a child. The dead, allegedly a member of the anti-government ethnic armed group -- Kayin National Union (KNU), blew himself off when he was waiting for his partner to plant the bomb, according to earlier official report.
A bomb explosion hit a women latrine in the Yangon Railway Station on Jan. 13, injuring one woman. And a bomb went off on the rear part of a highway passenger bus on Jan. 16, claiming the life of a bus conductor.
Source: Xinhua
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