Blast during radical Myanmar monk's sermon injures five

Originally published on July 22, 2013

A small bomb detonated meters away from a radical Buddhist monk as he delivered a mass sermon in Myanmar's second largest city late on Sunday, according to a Reuters report. The incident took place during a ceremony conducted by Ashin Wirathu, a prominent monk accused of inciting violence against the country's minority Muslim community, on the outskirts of Mandalay.

The home-made bomb went off underneath a parked car roughly 18 meters from where Wirathu was speaking and injured five people. Wirathu, who once called himself "the Burmese bin Laden" is the leader of a Buddhist extremist movement known as 969.

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