At least 8 killed in Myanmar Insein Prison blasts: Media reports

Parcel bombs are suspected in Insein Prison explosions that reportedly killed three staff and five visitors. At least eight people have been reported killed following two explosions inside Myanmar’s high-security Insein Prison, according to media reports. The BBC’s Burmese-language news service reported that two parcel bombs had detonated on Wednesday morning, killing three prison staff and five visitors and injuring at least another 10 people as the explosions ripped through the prison’s mail room. Bomb blasts, gunfire at Myanmar’s biggest prison kills eight, including guards Prison staff and civilians are reportedly among those killed after shots are allegedly fired from a watchtower at Yangon’s Insein Prison following a parcel bomb attack https://t.co/RKBepoVHgf — Myanmar Now October 19, 2022 Khit Thit media, citing a statement from the country’s military, also reported that several shots were fired by the prison’s military personnel after the blast and that some of the people wounded had sustained gunshot wounds. More than 2,200 people have been killed and 15,000 arrested in the military’s crackdown on dissent since a February 2021 coup in Myanmar that removed the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.