It was the biggest street demonstrations seen yet since this week's coup.

As the protests, world witnesses reported a shutdown of mobile data services and WiFi.

Earlier, the military ordered mobile operators and Internet providers to block access to Twitter and Instagram.

A temporary ban had already been put on Facebook, which counts half of the country's 54 million population as users.

Before the shutdown, Hashtag save Mima and Hashtag respect, our votes were trending and many were using the platform to voice their opposition to the military coup.

The Ministry of Communications and Information did not immediately answer a request for comment, but said previously it had blocked Facebook for the sake of quote stability.

A Facebook spokesman confirmed the block on Instagram to Reuters.

A spokeswoman for Twitter said.

Quote, We will continue to advocate toe end destructive government led shutdowns.

Norwegian Telecom, tellin all one of the largest in Myanmar, also expressed its concern in a statement and said it had challenged the necessity off the order to authorities for the fourth consecutive night.

Yangon residents banged pots and pans to show resistance against the military takeover and to drive out evil spirits.

There were signs of coup opponents growing bolder.

On Friday.

Staff from various government ministries put on red ribbons in the capital Naypyidaw, and some teachers at a university in Yangon refused to work and held a three finger salute as a symbol of resistance borrowed from the Hunger Games film Siri's On Saturday, Sean Turnell, an Australian economic adviser to Souci, said in a message to Reuters he was being detained.

This is the first known arrest off a foreign national in Myanmar since the army general seized power on Monday alleging fraud in the November election.

Souci and at least 147 people have been detained since the coup, including activists, lawmakers and officials from her government.