{"id":1973,"date":"2024-10-19T14:11:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T10:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/china-consulate-in-myanmar-attacked-with-explosive-device\/"},"modified":"2024-10-19T14:11:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T10:41:52","slug":"china-consulate-in-myanmar-attacked-with-explosive-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/china-consulate-in-myanmar-attacked-with-explosive-device\/","title":{"rendered":"China consulate in Myanmar attacked with explosive device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.mehrnews.com\/d\/2023\/12\/19\/4\/4781800.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The blast occurred at the consulate office in central Mandalay, south of the sprawling Royal Palace, around 7 pm local time Friday (1230 GMT Friday), local media said.<\/p>\n<p>China is a major ally and arms supplier to Myanmar&#8217;s junta, but it also maintains ties with ethnic groups fighting the military in Myanmar&#8217;s northern Shan state, according to analysts.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military deposed the government of Aung San Suu Kyi and seized power in 2021.<\/p>\n<p> A Myanmar official in Mandalay confirmed to AFP there had been &#8220;an incident at the Chinese consulate office compound in Mandalay late evening yesterday&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was no one injured,&#8221; the official said, without specifying the nature of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Irrawaddy outlet reported a grenade had been thrown at the compound, which is usually guarded by members of Myanmar&#8217;s security forces.<\/p>\n<p>The Voice of Myanmar reported the consulate had been hit by an unidentified &#8220;explosion&#8221; without giving details.<\/p>\n<p> China&#8217;s embassy in Yangon did not respond to AFP&#8217;s queries, and a junta spokesman was unreachable for comment.<\/p>\n<p>MNA\/<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/223172\/China-consulate-in-Myanmar-attacked-with-explosive-device\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blast occurred at the consulate office in central Mandalay, south of the sprawling Royal Palace, around 7 pm local time Friday (1230 GMT Friday), local media said. China is a major ally and arms supplier to Myanmar&#8217;s junta, but it also maintains ties with ethnic groups fighting the military in Myanmar&#8217;s northern Shan state, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}