3 blasts rock Rakhine's capital Sittwe in Myanmar: Police

Three bombs exploded in different locations in Rakhine's state capital Sittwe early today morning, including at the home of a high ranking official, Myanmar police said.

"Three bombs exploded and three other unexploded bombs were found. A police was injured but not seriously," a senior officer said on the condition of anonymity, adding that there were no deaths.

The blasts occurred around 4am (local time) in the compound of the state government secretary's home, at an office and on a road leading towards the beach, the officer said.

Rakhine has been the epicentre of the worst human crisis the world has seen in recent times. Earlier, Human Rights Watch had accused the Aung Sang Suu Kyi government of destroying the evidences of the atrocities commited on the Rohingyas in the state.

Northern Rakhine has been nearly emptied of its Rohingya population since last August, when a military crackdown drove some 700,000 of the persecuted group across the border to Bangladesh.

The UN has accused Myanmar of waging an ethnic cleansing campaign against the Muslim minority, who face acute discrimination in the mainly Buddhist nation.

Myanmar denies the charge but has blocked UN investigators from investigating an area where thousands of Rohingya are believed to have been killed.

Hundreds of Rohingya villages were already damaged by fire during the initial months of violence last year, when soldiers and Buddhist vigilantes terrorised communities with arson, gunfire and rape, according to refugees.

Haunting images of levelled villages first circulated on social media earlier this month after they were posted by an EU diplomat.At the time Myanmar's Social Welfare Minister Win Myat Aye told AFP the demolition was part of a plan to "build back" villages to a higher standard than before.

Myanmar has trumpeted a government effort to rebuild violence-gutted Rakhine and welcome back refugees under a repatriation agreement with Dhaka that was supposed to commence in January.

But many Rohingya refuse to return without the guarantee of basic rights and safety.

Analysts have also sounded the alarm over the government's rehabilitation projects, calling the sweeping destruction of villages, mosques and property only the latest move to erase the Rohingya's ties to their ancestral lands, and prevent them returning.