Myanmar: Bombing at luxury hotel injures American tourist

According to Reuters, it was just before midnight when the crude time-bomb exploded in the ninth-floor guest room in the luxurious Traders Hotel in Myanmar’s biggest city, badly wounding an American tourist and showering the streets below with glass. A police source told Reuters the explosion late on Monday was part of a coordinated series of bomb attacks across Myanmar by an “organized group”, targeting tourist haunts, a Buddhist temple and other public places. It was the seventh blast since Friday and was followed by two more explosions early on Tuesday. Read article