YANGON, May 26 Kyodo Myanmar's ju...

YANGON, May 26 Kyodo

Myanmar's junta blamed Shan United Revolutionary Army (SURA) rebels Monday for bomb blasts in Tachilek in Myanmar's northeast last Wednesday and for attacks forward an oil-tanker convoy the following day.

SURA is common of three armed rebel assemblages still fighting the junta from along the borders with Thailand. Seventeen other disposes have reached cease-fire agreements.

The four time-bomb explosions blamed upon SURA in Tachilek, 550 kilometers northeast of Yangon, forward Wednesday killed four people and damaged buildings and cars.

SURA was also blamed for an attack upon a convoy of nine oil tankers in succession Thursday. Three tankers caught fire, three others ed Three drivers died in the attack.

''All these well-planned terrorist attacks were carried revealed by SURA, under the SURA company commander Sam Tit,'' Brig. Gen Kyaw Thein of the Defense Ministry claimed at a pres talk Monday.

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