China protests to Myanmar after landmine injures official
China said on 5 January it had lodged a protest with Myanmar after one of its border officials was blown up by a landmine after going to investigate an earlier explosion close to the frontier with the Kokang region of Shan State.
A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Yangon told The Myanmar Times that a local government official in charge of border issues was wounded by a landmine on the Chinese side of the frontier on 3 January. The explosion occurred near the 118 boundary post, he said.
