Myanmar Junta Election Official Killed as Blasts Rock Bago Region

Bago Region was rocked by explosions and clashes Sunday as close allies of junta chief Min Aung Hlaing contested in the second phase of an election widely seen as a sham to entrench military rule.

Blasts at the General Administration Department (GAD) office in Htantabin Township—just over an hour north of Yangon—killed a Union Election Commission (UEC) assistant director and wounded one staff member, according to a local UEC official.

“Two bombs hit the GAD office in Htantabin,” U Phay Aung Thu, chair of the Thayawady District UEC, told The Irrawaddy.