<p> There was no immediate claim of responsibility or response from the authorities. Myanmar’s government usually blames bombings on ethnic minority rebels.<br /><br />The first three blasts went off within minutes of each other in three different places.<br />The first suspected bomb exploded in a jeep in Mandalay, the country’s second-biggest city after the former capital, Yangon, at about 12:10 pm. The incident happened near Zaygyo Market, a major shopping center in the central city, about 400 miles north of Yangon. “We heard the car was badly damaged and four people were wounded,” a shopkeeper told Reuters by telephone from the town, adding the market was closed, otherwise the number of casualties would have been higher.<br /><br />A bomb was also blamed for an explosion in an unoccupied house opposite a market in Naypyitaw, the new capital about 205 miles north of Yangon.</p>
<p> There was no immediate claim of responsibility or response from the authorities. Myanmar’s government usually blames bombings on ethnic minority rebels.<br /><br />The first three blasts went off within minutes of each other in three different places.<br />The first suspected bomb exploded in a jeep in Mandalay, the country’s second-biggest city after the former capital, Yangon, at about 12:10 pm. The incident happened near Zaygyo Market, a major shopping center in the central city, about 400 miles north of Yangon. “We heard the car was badly damaged and four people were wounded,” a shopkeeper told Reuters by telephone from the town, adding the market was closed, otherwise the number of casualties would have been higher.<br /><br />A bomb was also blamed for an explosion in an unoccupied house opposite a market in Naypyitaw, the new capital about 205 miles north of Yangon.</p>