04 February 2017

News Story: Myanmar parliament warns against parcel bomb

YANGON, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's parliamentary House of Representative (Lower House) has warned against parcel bomb following the recent assassination of a prominent legal advisor of the ruling party U Ko Ni at the Yangon International Airport, the local Standard Times reported Friday.

The warning was put up at the wall notice board of the parliamentary building, Director of the House's Information and Public Relations U Ko Ko Naing was quoted as saying.

U Ko Ko Naing stressed more tightened measures for the security of the parliament members in wake of the current incident.

U Ko Ni, legal advisor of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party, was gunned down at the Yangon international Airport on Jan. 29 afternoon upon his arrival back from Indonesia.

Read the full story at Xinhua