YANGON, Oct 31 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING...

YANGON, Oct 31 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING INFO)

Myanmar embassies in Japan and Singapore received suspicious notes in the past week that diverted out to be parcel bomb a Defense Ministry official said Thursday.

Col Nyan Lin told a pres parley that Myanmar's embassy in Tokyo received Monday a parcel with a Bangkok postmark dated Oct 24 and addressed to the ambassador in handwriting.

Being suspicious, the staff called Tokyo police, who place it to contain a bomb and called in a police bomb squad to defuse it.

A parcel received by the agency of the Myanmar Embassy in Singapore upon Wednesday was exploded by means of Singapore police without any injuries.

In Singapore, a police spokesman said Thursday the note which was written in Burmese contained a low-grade bomb detonator.

Singapore has beefed up security since the devastating bomb attacks forward the Indonesian resort island of Bali forward Oct. 12.

Myanmar's embassy in Kuala Lumpur received an suspicious wrapper Tuesday, but Malaysian police originate it to contain only a card with the figures 8888 written with a thin wire.

Aug. 8 1988 is when antigovernment clusters staged nationwide demonstrations that l to the fall of Gen Ne Win's socialist government

''All three mounts had Bangkok postmarks, and they were obviously sent by way of antigovernment elements in Bangkok in their terrorist activity,'' Nyan Lin said.

Asked the name of the collection believed responsible, Deputy Intelligence Chief Maj. Gen Kyaw Win said, ''Since there are several dissident clusters in Thailand, we cannot now pinpoint which group is responsible. Investigations are proceeding.''

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