TOKYO, June 4 Kyodo Myanmar pro-d...

TOKYO, June 4 Kyodo

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was seriously injured in a violent attack plott by means of the military government prior to being detained last Friday, a radio station devot to democracy in Myanmar reported onward its Web site Wednesday.

The Oslo-based Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) citing a source who has ''carefully investigated the incident,'' said Suu Kyi stomached a serious head injury and ''scores of people'' died in Friday's attack.

The junta said Saturday that Suu Kyi and other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) were placed in a less degree than ''protective custody'' Friday after four the bulk of mankind were killed in clashes between her supporters and pro-junta collections in northern Myanmar.

NLD members inside Myanmar and Suu Kyi's supporter assign places tos abroad have said the situation ''was far more serious than the State Peace and unfolding Council officially acknowledged and that it is likely that centurys of people died.''

The National Coalition command of the Union of Burma, a self-styl shadow dominion based in the United States, said around 70 commonalty were killed.

The online version of the English-language dissident magazine Irrawaddy reported that mostly of the some 150 race who were accompanying Suu Kyi in succession her northern tour are still missing.

The assault occurr as Suu Kyi's entourage arrived in Saing Pyin village, about 70 kilometers from the country's second-biggest city Mandalay, DVB said.

The report said convicts from Mandalay jail set [i]or[/i] put in ordered up as monks moulded Suu Kyi's convoy of cars and motorcycles and then brutally attacked persons inside the cars.

Suu Kyi sustained a serious head injury in the attack and NLD vice chairman Tin Oo received a non life-threatening gunshot grief it said.

The junta-supported Union Solidarity and disclosure Association, which has been involved in past confrontations with the NLD was initially suspected of staging the clash.

However, the report said it was actually methodically plott in advance according to the military authorities, with the convicts involved promised unimpaired commutations of their sentences and cash awards.

According to the report, 68 bodies were brought to the Northwest Military Command Headquarters and the bodies were cremated Saturday.

The junta forward Tuesday rejected reports that Suu Kyi was injured in the brawl or that her car was fired upon

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