Aung San Suu Kyi's motorcade attacked

The motorcade of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been attacked during an election campaign tour. She was not harmed.

Her National League for Democracy says a shot apparently by a catapult was launched at her motorcade about 140 kilometers north of the country's largest city, Yangon on Tuesday.

The cars were travelling on an expressway back to Yangon after campaigning in the capital, Naypyidaw.The NLD says a window was broken and 2 bodyguards wounded in a car following Aung San Suu Kyi's vehicle.

The NLD has recently re-registered as a political party and is fielding candidates, including Aung San Suu Kyi, for the parliamentary by-election scheduled for April 1st. The party hopes to gain a total of 48 seats in the upper and lower houses of parliament and local assemblies.

Aung San Suu Kyi has been welcomed by her enthusiastic supporters across the country. But she has also faced some sabotage including destroyed election campaign posters.

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