Bombings in the state capital are rare however. A police officer was injured but not seriously," a senior officer told AFP on condition of anonymity. "Some streets are being blocked by police already because of the bomb blasts," Zaw Zaw, a local resident of Sittwe, told AFP by phone. The state capital Sittwe lies around 100 km south of the epicentre of that conflict. The violence prompted an ethnic Rakhine rebel group in the state to promise "serious" retaliation for the deaths of the protesters.

Source: Bangkok Post February 24, 2018 03:00 UTC