People and a few Myanmar soldiers outside the Dagon Center. A series of three bomb explosions occurred in separate locations here Saturday afternoon, killing atleast eight people and injuring some 50 others.

YANGON, May 7 (Xinhuanet) -- A series of three bomb explosions occurred in separate locations here Saturday afternoon, killing atleast eight people and injuring some 50 others, eyewitnesses here said.

    The three explosions within half an hour took place at the Yangon Trade Center, Dagon Center and Junction-8 City Mart.

    Of them, the blast, which occurred at about 2:40 p.m. (local time) at the four-story Yangon Trade Center where a Thai trade exhibition was underway, killed four people and injured about 30 others, eyewitnesses said.

    The bomb, which went up at a supermarket in the 11-story Dagon Center at about 3 p.m., injured some 10 people, while the casualties at a supermarket in the Junction-8, about 13.4 kilometers north of downtown Yangon, went to four being killed andover 10 injured, the eyewitnesses added.

    The police have closed the scenes and rescue works are underwaywith wreckage being cleared.

    So far, the authorities have not yet made any specific announcement of the terrorist incidents with no one claiming the responsibility of the explosions also.

    The explosions came less than two months after two bombs went up in Yangon in mid-March, one at a bus terminal in eastern Yangon,while the other at a downtown hotel. Neither of the blasts then had resulted in casualties.

    The Myanmar authorities blamed some anti-government organizations operating in exile for sponsoring the two previous Yangon bomb attacks.

    However, a bomb explosion on April 26 in a major market of Zaycho in Mandalay, Myanmar's second largest city and about 680 kilometers north of Yangon, had killed two young women, injuring 15 others, according to official media. The wounded included 13 women. Enditem