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Yangon grenade attack result of marital dispute: authorities
BANGKOK, Aug 29 (AFP) - A hand grenade attack on the car of a Myanmar
military officer which injured two people was the result of a marital
dispute and not a political act, officials said Sunday.
The Thailand-based All Burma Students' Democratic Front (ABSDF) said the
attack took place in the capital Yangon on August 18, and speculated it may
have been a result of rivalry in the military.

But official sources who acknowledged the incident said a woman had
confessed to throwing the grenade at her husband and a suspected lover.

The officer, who was out of town, had allegedly lent his car to a married
businessman friend who used it to court another woman.

The would-be Romeo and Juliet remain in hospital with serious, but not
fatal, injuries.

The ABSDF statement said it was unclear who had thrown the grenade, but that
it was lobbed from the window of a passing car.

The ABSDF, part of a wider group of dissidents and opposition leaders
calling for a mass uprising against the ruling military next month, are
accused by the junta of being an armed terrorist group.

Myanmar has been under military rule since it gained independence from
Britain in 1962.