Six dead as explosion rocks Myanmar town

YANGON - Six people were killed when an explosion tore through a house in the Myanmar town of Hakha, police said Monday.

The blast struck late Sunday in the town which is the capital of Chin, a mountainous western state that borders both Bangladesh and India and is one of Myanmar's poorest.

"Six people died and seven are in the Hakha hospital," Than Kyaw Htay, an officer at the town's police station, told AFP by telephone.

He said the cause of the blast was unknown but gunpowder or some sort of explosive was suspected.

Eyewitness Ko Ko arrived on the scene shortly afterwards.

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