One person has been killed and four wounded in a bomb blast in central Myanmar, which authorities
blamed on an ethnic rebel
group battling the military government, state-run press reported Sunday.
A 25-year-old suspected bomb-maker was
killed when the device went off prematurely near a circus in Bago Division, north of the main city Yangon, the government-run New
newspaper said.
The newspaper blamed the Karen National Union (KNU), which has been waging a nearly six-decade long insurgency, and said that a gun, ammunition and explosives were recovered from the body of the dead man.
A 28-year-old man was arrested at the scene, the paper said, while four bystanders -- three women and a four-year-old boy -- were slightly wounded.
The KNU once held a broad swathe of territory near the Thai border, but lost most of their ground after the military captured a key stronghold in 1995.