NEWS IN MYANMAR! 21/04/08

YANGON

Two small blasts hit military-ruled Myanmar 's economic hub Yangon on Sunday, damaging cars in the downtown area but causing no injuries, police and witnesses said.

The blasts, the latest in a spate of similar incidents this year, come three weeks before a referendum on a proposed army-backed constitution, Myanmar 's first polling since 1990.
The first explosion struck just outside a bar a few streets away from Yangon's City Hall, and police swiftly sealed off the scene.

"It was a bomb blast," said a Yangon police official who asked not to be named as he was not authorised to speak to the media.

"It happened at about 7:55 pm (1325 GMT) and a taxi nearby was hit and glass was broken nearby but no one was injured."

Just over an hour later, witnesses heard a loud bang near a luxury hotel in the city centre.
"I heard a very big noise and then we moved to the street and a car was hit but no one was injured," said a man who lived nearby.
Police quickly arrived on the scene and blocked off access to the site, an AFP reporter on the scene said.

The police official refused to comment on who might be behind the first blast, but the military regime has previously blamed similar incidents on ethnic rebels battling junta rule.
Myanmar has been hit by a series of small blasts and rebel shootings since December. The authorities have blamed many of the attacks on the Karen National Union rebel group.
One woman was injured in January in a blast at Yangon's railway station, while in the country's remote new capital of Naypyidaw earlier that month, a woman was killed in a similar bombing at a train station.

The military often justifies its grip on power by citing the nation's decades-long battles with a score of armed groups around the country.

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