Two bombs exploded on Sunday in Yangon, military-ruled Myanmar’s biggest city, witnesses said. However, no casualties were immediately reported.The witnesses, who insisted on condition of anonymity, said the first blast occurred on a downtown Yangon street at around 8 pm local time. The second took place an hour later on another downtown street, the witnesses said.There was no known claim of responsibility and authorities did not immediately mention any suspects or confirm the cause of the blasts.The first bomb damaged a car beneath which it was hidden, eyewitnesses said. The other bomb was also placed under a car, they added. No other details of either blast were available. Security and riot police quickly blocked both roads.Terrorism is rare in Myanmar, which has been under near-continuous military rule since 1962. The country underwent extreme political turmoil in September 2007 when the government crushed peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations. The United Nations estimates at least 31 people were killed and thousands detained during the crackdown.The country has been in a political stalemate since 1990, when Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party won a general election but was not allowed to take power by the military, which continues to tightly control the country.Suu Kyi, currently under house arrest, has been in detention without trial for more than 12 of the past 18 years.
