A series of explosions on April 15 left 10 people dead and about 170 wounded as thousands of people gathered for water-throwing festivities to mark the Buddhist New Year, in the worst attack in five years in main city.
One suspect was arrested while the others fled across the border into Thailand, where police are cooperating in efforts to detain them, he said at a news conference in the remote administrative capital Naypyidaw.
This brutal act was committed by four terrorist murderers who are members of a group known as the Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors," police chief Khin Yi accused.
"I'm not sure this group is still even active, because we haven't encountered them for a long time," said Soe Aung, a spokesman for the Forum for Democracy in Burma, a coalition of pressure groups.
The police chief said the group was behind a series of blasts in recent years, although some exile activists were sceptical that the movement was responsible.
"We have witnessed that the regime has many times wrongfully accused democracy activists," an activist told AFP in Thailand",
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