Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Dead man’s explosive devices unearthed

 
by Mizzima News
Wednesday, 27 May 2009 12:50

Authorities on Tuesday unearthed explosive devices used by a deceased bomber in Rangoon’s suburban Township of Shwepyithar, the state-run newspaper said on Wednesday.

A report by the state-run newspaper, the New Light of Myanmar, on Wednesday said Win Hlaing, a resident of Shwepyithar township while digging the ground in his compound discovered 65 detonators nestling in a plastic bottle and sulphur blocks weighing about two ticals.

The newspaper said, at the same house on October 19, 2008 a bomb-maker Thet Oo Win (alias) Gadon was killed in a bomb blast, while he was assembling the bomb. The explosives discovered on Tuesday were left by Thet Oo Win who planned to set of a series of bombings in Rangoon but died, the newspaper added.

The newspaper also said, explosives were found to be of the same kind as the explosives used in the blast in Maha Bandoola Park on 25 September, 2008, where seven people were reportedly injured in the blast.