YANGON – Four small bombs exploded almost simultaneously in the eastern Myanmar border town of Tachileik, amid warnings from authorities that ethnic insurgents could step up their attacks, state media said last Tuesday.

No one was injured in the blasts in the early hours of Monday at a hotel and nearby teashop, the official New Light of Myanmar newspaper said.

The first bomb exploded around 2:40am Monday, damaging the hotel’s staff quarters, while three others went off at the teashop just 30 metres (100 feet) away. The paper gave no further details.

Tachileik sits on the Myanmar-Thai border in eastern Shan state, about 540 kilometres (335 miles) northeast of the nation’s economic hub Yangon. – AFP