DHAKA: 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, reports The Straits Times.

Myanmar government forces have been battling rebels on the border with China since last month and China has urged Myanmar to ‘lower the temperature’.

But Myanmar denied that any bomb from its forces had fallen in China and said the rebels might have fired into China to create ‘misunderstanding’.

China said the bomb from the Myanmar aircraft fell on Friday in a sugarcane field near the city of Lincang, in the south-western Chinese province of Yunnan. Nine people were wounded, state media reported.

The incident came days after a stray shell from Myanmar flattened a house in Chinese territory, prompting condemnation from Beijing. Tens of thousands of people, many of them ethnic Chinese, have fled the fighting in northeastern Myanmar’s Kokang region into China.

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.

BDST: 2020 HRS, MAR 14, 2015