Burma rocked by bomb blasts in three cities
Bomb blasts hit Burma’s capital, Naypyidaw, as well as the country’s second-largest city of Mandalay and the town of Pyin Oo Lwin on Friday, the latest in a series of blasts since a new military-backed government took power in March.
The first explosion happened around noon in downtown Mandalay, injuring at least two people and destroying one car (pictured above), Reuter reports.
A few minutes later, a second bomb blast occurred in Naypyidaw, near the government’s Gems Museum. A house was badly damaged, but no injuries were reported.
In Pyin Oo Lwin, the home of the Burmese military's elite Defense Services Academy, a third blast went off near an army supply and transport base.
The Myanmar Monitor tweeted pictures of the blasts, and updates about more bombings throughout the day:
The blasts were the latest in a series of bombings amid an armed conflict between government troops and the Kachin Independence Army, Burma's second largest ethnic armed group, that started on June 9.
See more photos of the destruction below:
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