Rangoon on edge after another bombing
In a third such incident in Rangoon in a week, four bombs exploded yesterday at the Immigration Department in South Dagon Township.
In a third such incident in Rangoon in a week, four bombs exploded yesterday at the Immigration Department in South Dagon Township.
The attackers used heavy weapons, most likely mortar or artillery fire, damaging some commercial buildings.
Chinese armed forces are on high alert in the Sino-Burmese border region as clashes between Burmese soldiers and rebels continue in Kokang.
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A bomb explodes outside a hotel in Hpakant in Kachin State, injuring a father and his daughter on a moped.
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Saw Htun Htun was found guilty of the murder of two persons in connection with the bombing of a guesthouse in Taungoo in 2013.
The Burmese government plans to set up a national counter-terrorism body in the near future to protect the country from extremist groups, according to a senior police official.
Court sentences man to ten years for the 2013 bombing of a guesthouse which left two dead.
A police officer from Taungoo township in Pegu division has told DVB that a 34-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection with a bombing in the town last month. However, a KNU spokesman says he is innocent.
The director-general of the Burmese police force says eight suspects are in custody following a spate of bombings which left three people dead and several injured.
Burma woke up this morning to news that yet another bomb blast had taken a life, this time in the northern Shan state town of Namhkam which lies close to the Chinese border.
An explosion in northern Burma’s Kachin state near a police traffic booth this morning injured three people, while no groups have claimed responsibility
One immigration official is dead after an explosion rocked a checkpoint in northern Shan state, while no groups have claimed responsibility for the attack
Suspect targets home in Kachin capital of Myitkyina three days after a deadly blast hits a police station in northern Shan state
Nearly 100 swept up in wave of Rangoon arrests but later released after police find no link between detainees and February bombing
Two people were killed and seven were injured when a bomb exploded in the border town of Myawaddy in eastern Karen state on Friday
Lawyer for Phyo Wei Aung says that client has been held for over a month without charge and under Burmese law should have been freed yesterday
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