Yangon Thingyan New Year Water Festival Bomb Blast site
Photo: Nyi Lynn Seck reproduced with permission
Three bomb blasts rocked former capital Yangon (Rangoon) during the Thingyan Myanmar New Year celebration this afternoon. According to official MRTV (Myanmar Radio and Television) announcement this evening, three bombs blasted in front of X20 water pandal near Kandawgyi Lake in downtown Yangon (Rangoon) at around 3.15 PM. Because of the bomb, 8 people (5 male and 3 female) died and injured 75 people(59 male and 16 female) were injured. According to unofficial rumours, the number of death is as high as 30, but this cannot be individually confirmed.
The photos of the bomb boast were posted on this blog post of Nyi Lynn Seck.
Face book’s Burmese pages were immediately filled with news of the bomb blast as well as people’s voices showing anger at the bombers. Myanmar Today also got this news a few hours before the official announcement from Face book and Twitter.
According to one witness account from a Myanmar blog, people were not aware of the bomb blast at first, thinking it was base sound from the loudspeaker. However, after a while, some people started to realize the truth and ran away, creating chaos and confusion. Some people were also injured by stampede during this chaotic scene.
Update: Official casualty figures now stand at 8 death and 170 injured. No suggestion of the organization/people behind the bomb blast from the official news media. Several countries, including US denounced the bomb blast.
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Deeply sorry for those who lost their lives in this bombing.
Wishing all injured to get well soon and our prayers be always with them.
The act of attacking unguarded innocent civilians is very coward, wicked and inhuman. Everyone should condemn it in any ways.
No matter whatever reason behind this attack or whoever did this, we want those culprits to be brought to the justice and be punished quickly. This is the duty & responsibility of relevant authority to get these criminals by any means.
The one who did that ugly attack must be the one who has such a deadly weapon. Everyone know who did this. The answer is simple. who has weapon?
EVERY ONE KNOW WHO DID IT.
WHO?????????????????
IF U REALLY KNOW ,SPEAK OUT.
every knows it. You also should know.
U all just know to blame government.That is the time to co-operate.That is not the time to blame, it is time to co-op to get guys who did it!
Hope all the injured people get well soon…
This is the worst thingyan i’ve ever met .
I FULLY AGREED WITH SOE LWIN,SOME ONE AND KING KONG.
april.15th,2010;at 30;00 မွာျဖစ္ပြါးခဲ့တဲ႔ဗုံးေပါက္ကြဲမႈသည္သတင္းဌာနေတြကေျပာၾကားေရးသားခဲ႔တဲ႔အေၾကာင္းေတြဟာညီညြတ္မႈ
မရွိဘဲတစ္ဌာနနဲ႔တစ္ဌာနေျပာၾကားေရးသားျခင္းဟာသတင္းမတိက်ဘူးလိုံေျပာခ်င္ပါတယ္။ဘာေၾကာင္းလဲဆိုေတာ့
It is not directly hit to Government.
We would try to fight against the evil and jungle government.
Damned… so baddddd.. who is doing during this Thingyan..
Might be the one who didn’t care burmese new years celebration.
Dear all,
I really don’t understand why Myanmar people are still in trouble and living with fears. I always wish Myanmar to escape from bad records and welcome to become ” To be really Golden Lands “. We have Buddhist ways. Why not to become good nation? right?
I think myanmar president tell to worker for 3 bombs explosion for yangoon
Steven From US