Blasts hit Burma New Year festival

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At least nine people have been killed and dozens wounded after several explosions hit Burma's biggest city Yangon during traditional New Year festivities.

A hospital official who gave the death toll said the number was expected to rise.

Nobody has taken responsibility for the blasts, and the military government did not immediately comment.

Witnesses said the emergency ward of Yangon General Hospital was sealed off to outsiders after at least 30 injured people were rushed there. One said the hospital was a scene of chaos and commotion, with injured arriving and people crying.

Other witnesses said three blasts occurred near pavilions erected for the New Year's celebrations, close to the city's Kandawgyi Lake.

Burma is celebrating the annual four-day water festival, when people drench each other with water to usher in its traditional New Year.

"Truckloads of police have circled the area and police had arrived with sniffer dogs," said 24-year old Thant Zaw, a witness.

A hospital official said the casualties so far did not include any foreigners, though the festival is a tourist attraction.

Maybe that'll teach them to have new year the same time as the rest of us.

Danbo!

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Maybe that'll teach them to have new year the same time as the rest of us.

Now that's just silly.

Minstrel27

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

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Maybe that'll teach them to have new year the same time as the rest of us.

What has the time of their new year have to do with anything?

pickarooney

A swing and a miss there, OP. You're supposed to wait until someone else posts it so your urbane, off-the-cuff observation doesn't look like a weak attempt to milk humour from tragedy.

Just watch, someone will rack his brains feverish and come up with something pathetic like 'Boo-urma!' and get all the adulation while you go thankless.

alwaysadub

"Burma is celebrating the annual four-day water festival, when people drench each other with water to usher in its traditional New Year."

I'm so gonna try that this New Years:D
People will probably end up with pneumonia, but i'll enjoy myself :pac:

NothingMan

A hospital official said the casualties so far did not include any foreigners

That's a pity. Everyone hates those pesky foreigners!

Sykk

I care little for any military ruled reigime. Pity so many civilians were killed, though.

Dave!

Boo-urma!!!

bonerm

A hospital official who gave the death toll said the number was expected to rise.

Darn. I was hoping it would say "A hospital official who gave the death toll said the number was expected to fall."

dsmythy

Probably ethnic related.

Wazdakka

alwaysadub wrote: »

I'm so gonna try that this New Years:D
People will probably end up with pneumonia, but i'll enjoy myself :pac:

You do know that it's water you're to use?
Not "Water"...

You could get arrested for pissing off a balcony onto drunken new years eve'rs