Explosion on Bus
YANGON - SEVEN passengers were killed and one was injured when a bus exploded in Myanmar’s main city Yangon early Monday morning, a police official said. The blast occurred at 2.30am as the bus headed north through the city, said the police official who did not wish to be named. The official said the explosion had been caused by a faulty re-fitting of the bus to run on cheaper natural gas instead of petrol, a common practice in impoverished Myanmar. Myanmar has also been hit by a spate of bombings which authorities have mostly blamed on armed exile groups, but when a bus explosion at a busy Yangon intersection last month and injured three passengers, officials did not say whether it was caused by a bomb.
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