China has summoned the Myanmar ambassador for a meeting in Beijing after a bomb from a Myanmar aircraft fell in Chinese territory and killed four Chinese people, China’s foreign ministry said on Saturday.
Myanmar government forces have been battling rebels in northeastern Myanmar, on the border with China, since last month and China has urged Myanmar to "lower the temperature".
The bomb from the Myanmar aircraft fell on Friday in a sugarcane field near the city of Lincang, in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan. Nine people were wounded, state media reported.
The incident came just days after a stray shell from Myanmar flattened a house in Chinese territory, prompting condemnation from Beijing.
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin urged the Myanmar ambassador, Thit Linn Ohn, to investigate the aircraft bombing and to take steps to ensure the safety of the border area.
Tens of thousands of people, many of them ethnic Chinese, have fled the fighting in Myanmar’s Kokang region into Yunnan.