Asahi - Myanmar Embassy in Tokyo receives suspected mail bomb

On the evening, about 6:00pm of 28th Myanmar embassy of 4, kita-shinagawa, Shinagawa ?ku, Tokyo made a communication to Metropolitan Police Department station, that the suspicious mail with explosive substance addressed to the Ambassador reached. The explosive substance processing group examined it and a detonator and a lead line were found from the inside. It is considered to be explosive substance and the Metropolitan Police Department investigates it.

In the investigation, mail is a sealed international mail from Thai and is vertical 18 centimeters, side 13 centimeters, thickness 6mg. Ambassador's name and address was written in English, and there wasn?t the name of the sender. The mail was postmark of Thai, Bangkok dated 24th.

The embassy?s staff found it in assortment of mail, but reported it without opening, because the touch was suspicious. There is a birthday card of a folio inside and will explode when it is open. Metropolitan Police say there is enough casualties power. MPD considers it to be possibility of terrorism at an embassy and examine structure of explosive substance and specification of sender.