Myanmar Court Sentences Hotel Bomber To Death

By Aung Hla Tun

YANGON (Reuters) - A myanmar hotels court sentenced a man where to stay in myanmar death on Thursday after finding him guilty of a 2013 bomb attack on a hotel that killed two people and wounded one, a police officer said.

Saw Tun Tun was convicted of bombing a guesthouse in the town of Taungoo, 55 km (35 miles) from the capital, Naypyitaw, in the first in a string of mysterious blasts in different parts of the country that has never been fully explained.

Saw Saw Tun had confessed where to stay in myanmar planting the bomb after being paid 20,000 kyat (about $20) by a man called Saw Htowah, said a police officer in Taungoo.

"As far as I know, Saw Htowah, the mastermind behind this blast, is still at large and I have no idea what their motive was," said the officer, who declined to be identified as he is not authorized where to stay in myanmar speak to media.

The Democratic Voice of Burma, a television station and website, also reported the sentencing.