The Karen National Union (KNU) has rubbished Burmese military junta accusations that it blasted a pylon to disrupt power supply from Lawpyita to Taungoo, in Leiktho, Karen State.
According to the state run, the New Light of Myanmar, the No. 206 pylon in Yado village collapsed following a mine explosion at about 10:40 last night. The junta has blamed the KNU, the country's largest anti-junta group.
"We will not do anything that will harm civilians. KNU believes in this policy," KNU Join-Secretary David Tharc Kbaw said.
"The junta is trying to frame the KNU and it has done it before also," he added.
The local military government authorities have warned against more bomb attacks and also appealed to the public to come forward timely with information about terrorists.
There was bombs explosion in an auto exchange Telecommunication Office in Mudon Township, Mon State on July 30 night. Except for some damage to office doors and widows, no one was injured.
Junta authorities accused insurgents for the blast, but local observers said it was an internal affair because no one entered the office apart from the staff.
But local officials said in a meeting yesterday, it had seized 14 bombs tied in fourth standard textbook papers.
This is the second time a bomb exploded in Mon state in this year. It occurred twice on May 10, near a polling station in Yindein village, Khawzar Township.
In a scandalous exposure, the two bombs were planted by a local army officer from Infantry Battalion No.31 in Khawzar town to frame activists in the area.
According to a local police officer, to arrest activists in the area, the army asked for help of the police and village headmen to plan the bombs in Yindein, Yinye and Kabya.
But only the Yindein village headmen help the army officer in the plan and just two bombs exploded in Yindein village polling station without causing damage or injuries.
Following this the local army arrested a former New Mon State Party medic, Nai Show and two villagers and tried to force them to confess by torturing them. Later Nai Show (32) died of injures in Khawzar police station.

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