A minivan damaged by a bomb blast is seen in a street in Yangon on April 20.

THE government has blamed an armed exiled student group for two recent bomb blasts in Yangon and has released a security camera photograph of a suspect, state media reported last Tuesday.

Two small separate explosions went off on the evening of April 20, damaging cars in downtown areas near Yangon City Hall and the Traders Hotel but causing no injuries.

“It is learnt that the perpetrations were committed by a man dubbed Mone Dine who was sent into the nation after attending explosive courses conducted by Vigorous Burma Student Warriors (VBSW) in the other country,” the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper said, without naming the country.

The suspect was “about 5.6 feet (1.7 metres) tall with shoulder length hair, fair complexion, thin face and about 30 years of age.”

The English-language daily ran an accompanying picture taken from a security camera that it said showed the suspect carrying explosives behind the Traders Hotel.

It did not say whether the suspect had been arrested but noted that authorities had asked people to come forward with information.