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Burma: Third Bombing In Three days

Published: Tue 15 Jan 2008 08:55 AM
Press Release: Terry Evans
14 January
Burma: Third Bombing In Three days
A further bomb explosion has been reported at Rangoon's railway station, the third bombing incident in three days. According to a reliable source, one woman was slightly injured in the blast.
On Friday a woman was killed by a bomb at the railway station near the new capital Naypyidaw, while a man was killed and four people were injured Saturday in a blast in Bago Division, north of Rangoon The junta has blamed the first two bombings on the Karen National Union (KNU), an ethnic group who have waged an armed struggle for independence since being abandoned by the British after WWII.
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