Two dead, 22 hurt from bomb blast in northeast Myanmar city Lashio


  • World
  • Wednesday, 21 Feb 2018

YANGON (Reuters) - A bomb blast killed two bank employees and injured 22 other people in Myanmar's northeastern city of Lashio on Wednesday, the government and the military said.

Police said an investigation was under way but would not elaborate on whether there were any suspects in the attack. Lashio is in Myanmar's restive Shan State where several ethnic insurgent groups are fighting the Myanmar military.

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