IMNA : According to a resident, at 3 am this morning a bomb exploded in front of a Democratic Karen Buddhist Army(DKBA) checkpoint outside Three Pagodas Pass (TPP) town, Karen State.
A TTP resident reported that the DKBA checkpoint in question is located near the community of Toung Wine, on the way to Maikatar forest, beyond the town limits of TPP town.
“A bomb exploded early this morning, but nobody was injured,” said a political observer who lives in the area. He also reported to IMNA that TPP law enforcement authorities are still searching for the culprit.
The TPP resident interviewed reported to IMNA that a second, undetonated device was also found by law enforcement authorities this morning in the Burmese government’s Land Department office, located inside TPP town. He explained that an Immigration Department office and a Special Police office are also located in the second bomb site’s vicinity. Local authorities have reportedly prohibited residents from entering the area.
“After 6:30 am, the authorities did not allow [anyone] to go inside that office. I think maybe it’s a bomb like the kind that someone throws from outside [a grenade]” he added.
Any connection between the two incidents has yet to be confirmed. Residents report that security around TTP town tightened dramatically this week after an undetonated bomb was discovered near the town’s electrical transformer tower on August 12th. The incident was covered in IMNA’s Burmese and Mon sections earlier this week.
