YANGON: Three bombs exploded early Saturday in the capital of Myanmar’s Rakhine state, a cauldron of ethnic tensions roiled by insurgencies and a military crackdown on the Muslim Rohingya, officials said.

The three blasts at separate locations around Sittwe included one at the home of a high ranking official, police told Agence France-Presse.

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