A series of bombings rocked the site of a dam project in a remote part of Myanmar on Saturday.

The explosions happened in the early hours at four locations of the Myitsone Dam, in the country's northernmost Kachin state, a local official said on condition of anonymity.

"One engineer was slightly injured; some cars and buildings were destroyed because of the blasts," the official added.

The Myitsone Dam project has been under way since 2005 and is being constructed by Myanmar's government in partnership with China Power Investment Corporation (CPI) and China Southern Power Grid Corporation.

The Myanmar government has an investigation under way. The Chinese embassy in Myanmar has also adopted relevant measures in response.

However, due to the lack of direct flights between Yangon, the country's former capital, and the project area, it takes two days and two nights of driving to reach the construction site, an official at the embassy told the Global Times on condition of anonymity.

"The Myitsone Dam is in its early stages of construction, so the blasts did not cause severe damage," a Chinese worker there told the Global Times on condition of anonymity.

He noted that the dam is the first one of the seven dams to be constructed in upstream of the Irrawaddy river by the CPI and the power department of Myanmar. It will have the biggest installed capacity in the country and is expected to generate electricity by 2017.

The blasts took place two days after three other explosions went off at a park in Yangon, where revelers were celebrating an annual water festival, killing eight people in the worst attack there in five years. Myanmar state media has urged people to "remain vigilant against potential atrocities."

Agencies - Global Times