The car exploded meters away from a radical preaching monk four injured people in northern Myanmar, the police said on Monday.
Unexplained exploded late Sunday in Myanmar's second largest city, Mandalay, according to police and witnesses. It occurs in a ceremony Wirathu, a prominent anti-Muslim monks, who called himself "Myanmar bin Laden."
Two monks as minor injuries, but in those receiving treatment in hospital, Wirathu not among them.
"About 40 feet away from the U Wirathu a car parked in a small explosion," police officer told Reuters correspondent Mandalay by phone, refer to the revered monk. The official requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
It is not clear what caused the explosion or any preliminary police probe results.
A witness said that security has been stepped up since then in Mandalay. Even before the explosion, security has been tight this week in Buddhist activities held in the commercial capital Yangon.
Explosion occurred in the fifth and final day of the Wirathu, 969 grassroots movement known as a major supporter of holding mass sermon. The campaign has been accused of stirring anti-Muslim sentiment eased restrictions of freedom of speech and assembly since the end of military rule, two years ago in a deeply Buddhist country.
Reuters poll last month showed that 969 monks wave of anti-Muslim bloodshed could undermine the nascent reforms in Myanmar provides a moral justification.
Government officials for comment. President Thein Sein's office, 969 as a "symbol of peace" and Wirathu described as "Buddha" son.
At least 237 people were killed in religious violence in Burma over the past year, about 150,000 people were displaced. Most of the victims were Muslims and most fatal accident occurred in Rakhine State, of which about 800,000 Rohingya Muslims live, according to the UN.
 



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