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Security beefed up in Rangoon post bomb blast
Thu 17 Jan 2008,
Banyol Kin, IMNA
Security around Rangoon city, former capital of Burma has been beefed up, after a bomb blast yesterday.
"Policemen and security personnel are posted on the street and are checking people. Many people are annoyed at being checked," said a local resident.
The authorities have warned shops around the city and have asked people to clean up the road and not put garbage packets. If they see some suspicious looking packages, they have been told to call security forces, she added.
All internet cafés have been instructed to report to the authorities if some users upload pictures relating to the blast, said an internet shop owner in Rangoon.
"If I don't report to the authorities, they will cancel our license" he added.
The bomb explosion on Wednesday morning was the fourth on the Rangoon- Madalay highway to be reported in the past six days.
The bus where the bomb exploded, had come from Kyaukkyi in Karen State, where ethnic rebels have been fighting central Burman rule for over half a century.
The other bombs exploded at the railway station in Rangoon, in the new capital of Naypyitaw and during an outdoor show in a northern town.
The state-controlled local media has blamed the blasts either on ethnic rebels or on a foreign entity bent on destroying the country.
The ethnic rebel group, Karen National Union (KNU) has rubbished allegations by the junta that it was responsible for the blasts.
"The military regime is engineering the blasts themselves for diverting attention of the people from their evil doings," said KNU spoke person Saw Hla Nye.
The authorities are being strict with people travelling to Rangoon city, said a Moulmein resident who reached Rangoon last night.
"There is a lot of check points and they ask many questions as to the reason why we are going to Rangoon" he said.
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