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YANGON, MYANMAR - BOMBS exploded in two eastern Myanmar states on Friday, leaving no casualties but damaging government infrastructure, state media said.
The blasts hit an electricity pylon and telephone operator office, said the New Light of Myanmar newspaper, a government mouthpiece. It blamed ethnic Karen insurgents opposed to the country's military rulers.
An electricity pylon collapsed in one explosion in Lawpita-Toungoo, Hpa-an district in Karen State at 10.40 pm last Sunday (9.10pm Singapore time), the paper reported.
A door and three windows were damaged at the government-run telephone operator office in Mudon Township in Mon State in another attack at 11.30 pm (10am Singapore time) the same day, it said.
'There were no fatalities and no damage to the telephone connection,' the paper said, adding steps had been taken to avoid disruption to electricity supply after the pylon's collapse.
The New Light accused the Karen National Union (KNU) of planting the Bombs.
'The insurgents are committing subversive acts such as bomb explosions, planting mines with the aim of undermining the stability of the state, peace and tranquility, rule of law, killing innocent people and causing public panic', the paper said.
The KNU is the biggest ethnic rebel group in Myanmar and has been fighting for autonomy from the military regime, which has run Myanmar since 1962, for more than five decades.
Myanmar faces scores of organised resistance groups. Such small explosions are usually blamed on ethnic rebels or exiled dissident groups.
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