"Terrorist insurgents" have killed 27 people and wounded 11 others in separate attacks last week on passenger buses, state media reports said Monday. According to The New Light of Myanmar, a government mouthpiece, insurgents on June 21 detonated a bomb and then fired on a public bus at Alebote, the Kayah State, killing 10 passengers and wounding three others. "In Kayah State also, terrorist insurgents brutally killed 17 passengers in another shooting spree that occurred at 6 pm on June 22," said the daily, which added that the military were in "hot pursuit of the terrorist insurgents." Another eight were wounded in the June 22 attack.
