Monitoring Desk
NAYPYIDAW: At least three people were killed and nine injured in a bomb blast at a railway station in Myanmar on Monday, local media and the junta said.
The blast struck a station at Nyaunglaybin township in the Bago region around 150 kilometers north of commercial hub Yangon at around 12:20 pm local time (0550 GMT), the junta’s information team said in a statement.
It released pictures showing rubble and roof tiles littering a platform.
Quoting local sources, local media also reported three people had died, and at least nine had been injured.
The junta statement blamed anti-coup “People’s Defence Forces” (PDFs) for the attack without offering evidence.
The PDF groups and military have traded blame over several deadly blasts recently.
No group claims responsibility for the blast
There was no statement from the Bago region PDF, which claimed responsibility for an explosion that damaged a bridge in Nyaunglaybin on February 9.
Since the military seized power two years ago, Myanmar has been in turmoil, with anti-coup rebels clashing with junta troops across the country.
There are almost daily killings of low-level junta officials or anti-coup fighters, with details murky and reprisals often following quickly.
In December last year, about a dozen people were injured in an explosion on a ferry in Yangon.
In October last year, at least two bombs exploded outside a prison in Yangon, killing eight people and injuring 18 others.
Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing acknowledged recently that over a third of the country’s townships were not under complete military control.
