US woman injured as small bomb caused Myanmar hotel explosion
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An explosion that injured an American guest in one of the ritziest hotels in Myanmar’s main city was caused by a small, homemade time bomb placed in her room, police said yesterday.
It was the most high-profile in a series of explosions. In less than a week, a restaurant, two bus stops, Buddhist temples and a market have been targeted.
A police officer said three suspects were detained in connection with the blast at midnight on Monday at the Traders Hotel in the heart of Yangon and one of the most popular spots among foreign tourists, businesspeople and aid workers.
The crude device was hidden in the bathroom, wounding the 43-year-old American woman, police said. Her husband and two young children, aged 5 and 7, were unharmed. It did not appear that the family had been directly targeted.
Thick shards of glass from the shattered windows of the ninth-floor room landed in the street more than 30 meters away.
State-run TV said a fourth suspect, captured on the hotel’s security camera, was hauled in by authorities in Mon state.
It wasn’t clear who was responsible, but the government is still fighting Kachin and other scattered ethnic groups and the country has seen sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims.
Myanmar has been rocked by small explosions in recent days, including two before dawn yesterday in Saggaing near Mandalay, just hours after the attack on the Traders Hotel. Police said the first of those explosions occurred in the restaurant of a hotel used by tourists and the second at the Taw Oo Pone Nya Shin Pagoda. No one was injured.
“These are deliberate acts to create panic, but the people should be cautious not to fall into the trap,” said Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who now serves as the opposition leader in parliament.
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