The Kayin National Union (KNU), a major anti-government ethnic armed group in Myanmar, fired heavy weapons into the country's border town of Myawaddy Saturday from where it is based on the Myanmar-Thai border, causing no casualties, official press media reported Sunday.
The KNU launched the attack from the distance four times into Myawaddy in Kayin state with two shells landing about 11 km southwest of the border town opposite to Thailand, said the New Light of Myanmar. "One near Zay lodging house in the town and the last one in the compound of a monastery", the report said, adding that "there were no casualties due to the blasts".
KNU remains as the largest anti-government armed group in Myanmar having not made peace with the government yet. The government claimed that a total of 17 anti-government armed groups have returned to the legal fold since it adopted a policy of national reconciliation since 1989.
Meanwhile, an improvised mine in a plastic container under a concrete pipe of a drainage at a residential quarter in Kanyuntkwin, Phyu township of Bago division was seized on last weekend, according to the paper's earlier report, Xinhua reported.
Again on Thursday night, two blasts occurred in series in Kyaukgyi of the same division with the prior taking place on a temporary wooden bridge in a village and the latter near the fence of an empty house in another village after 10 minutes, the report said, adding that no casualties were caused in both blasts.
The Myanmar authorities have called on the people to expose terrorists following the seizure of the mine and the occurrence of the two bomb blasts, saying that "anti-government organizations and terrorist armed groups are sending bombers to commit destructive acts in the nation and the authorities concerned are making arrangements for exposing those terrorists".