China: China sends fighter jets to Burma border after bomb kills four people
China sent fighter jets to patrol its border with Burma after a bomb dropped by a Burmese warplane killed four Chinese in southwestern Yunnan province, state media reported Saturday.
The bomb hit a sugarcane field in Lincang city on Friday, killing four workers and injuring nine others, China’s official news agency Xinhua said.
It came days after China warned of escalating violence near the border following a surge in ethnic conflict in the remote Kokang region in Burma’s northeastern Shan State.
The People’s Liberation Army Air Force on Friday sent several fighter jets to “track, monitor, warn and chase away” Burma military planes flying close to China’s border, air force spokesman Shen Jinke was quoted by Xinhua as saying.