YANGON, Myanmar, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Myanmar's military junta claims "internal and external destructive elements" are plotting to detonate more bombs in busy places in the country.

The warning, published in the state-run New Light of Myanmar, comes in the wake of two bomb explosions last week in a video lounge in Kyuaukkyi, which the government said killed a man and a woman and injured nine others.

The report said Saw Ya Ko, accused of planting the bombs, was arrested last Friday, after a "tip off by the duty-conscious people" who "have come to abhor the terrorist insurgents."

The suspect was accused of having been affiliated with the Kayin National Union, one of three anti-government groups the government said had sent "saboteurs" into the country early last month to "detonate bombs in busy places of Yangon (formerly Rangoon)."

"Internal and external destructive elements are plotting to detonate bombs in busy places of the country," the newspaper added, and "authorities ... are trying their utmost to expose the terrorists and their explosives."

In September 2007, the military government, in power since 1962, ruthlessly put down widespread pro-democracy protests.

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