YANGON: Myanmar police said Saturday they had arrested three Muslims for planting home-made bombs around Yangon and were investigating their links to "terrorists" in Rakhine state, where the army is cracking down on the Muslim Rohingya minority.

Two crude explosive devices went off inside the regional government office compound on Friday night, the third such small-scale attack to hit Myanmar's normally peaceful commercial hub in just over a week.

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