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Official: Bomb blast destroys hydropower generator in Myanmar

11:31, September 07, 2008

A bomb blast in Hpa-an township, Myanmar's northeastern Kayin state, Saturday destroyed a hydropower generator, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar confirmed on Sunday.

The bomb, which went off near the generator on Hpa-an-Hlinebwe road in Mebaung village of the township on Saturday afternoon, caused damage to the 50-KVA generator and broke some windows of the office, a windscreen and two side windows of a car, leaving a staff member slightly injured in his right arm, the report said.

Investigation into the incident is underway, the report added.

In last July, two bombs respectively exploded in Yangon and Bago divisions with the prior in a two-storey office of the Union Solidarity and Development Association in Yangon's Shwepyitha township, destroying a clinic-attached office building and leaving no casualties, while the latter killed one passenger and injured another on a mini-bus in Daik U township near the Kawliya Bridge en route from Kyaukkyi to Yangon with 35 passengers on board.

The authorities have linked these incidents with insurgents who are blamed for committing destructive acts to jeopardize the stability of the state, community peace and prevalence of law and order and caused panic among the people.