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Package bombs go off in Chinese city; 7 killed and 51 hurt
Esther Teo China Correspondent In Beijing
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People (above) surveying the aftermath of the explosions that hit Liuzhou city in China's south-western Guangxi region yesterday. A collapsed building after the blasts yesterday. At least 13 places, including hospitals, shopping malls and government offices, received the package bombs, local reports said, adding that a terrorist attack had been ruled out.PHOTOS: REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
At least seven people were killed, 51 others injured and two were missing as 17 package bombs exploded in Liuzhou city in the south-western Guangxi region, the latest in a string of violent knife and bomb attacks in China in recent years.
Police have identified the suspect as a 33-year-old male surnamed Wei and said the blasts were a "criminal" act, state media said, while local paper Nanguo Morning News said the suspect had been arrested.
At least 13 places - from hospitals and shopping malls to prisons, transport stations and town government offices - received the package bombs, local reports said, adding that a terrorist attack had been ruled out. Initial investigations showed explosives could have been placed inside express delivery packages, the official Xinhua news agency reported, and that the Ministry of Public Security has sent a team of experts to help in the probe.
State broadcaster CCTV cited a local police chief as saying that the blasts - which occurred on the eve of China's week-long National Day holiday - were caused by several different explosive devices.
Pictures showing a collapsed building, a plume of smoke and streets strewn with rubble were posted on CCTV's microblog. Vehicles were also damaged, witnesses said, according to Xinhua.
In recent years, several disgruntled Chinese citizens have bombed local government offices and public places in an attempt to bring attention to their grievances.
In 2013, for instance, a man set off a series of homemade bombs packed with ball bearings outside provincial government buildings in Taiyuan city in northern Shanxi province, killing at least one person and wounding eight. Xinhua said at the time he sought to "take revenge on society" but did not elaborate.
The same year, a street vendor set fire to a bus in eastern China's Fujian province, killing himself and nearly four dozen passengers in an act of retaliation against the local authorities.
China has also grappled with a spate of knife and bomb attacks targeting civilians at markets and train stations, particularly in the country's restive west, that Beijing blames on Islamic militants.
An assault in May last year on a market in Xinjiang region's capital Urumqi left more than 30 people dead, while knife-wielding assailants killed 29 people at a train station in the south-western city of Kunming in March the same year.

 

 

 

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17 packages, 13 locations in hospital, shopping mall, transport station, govt offices and even prison?? [sweatdrop][sweatdrop]

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siao liao ... today is China national day and start of golden week

 

the perpetrator had planned carefully to hit China on this date

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siao liao ... today is China national day and start of golden week

 

the perpetrator had planned carefully to hit China on this date

 

I am sure gong ann will sweep the mess clean clean [laugh]

when dealing with terrorist, I have full faith in china

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How can they so quickly be sure that it is not a terrorist attack?

 

becos big bro China is friend with everybody?

 

all govts will downplay such incident until thorough investigations are carried out.

 

the impact on social as well as economic repercussions are too great.

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From middle east to Bangkok and now China.....look like there isn't a safe place in earth....time to be a martian....may be mars is not safe too since the yankee are already there.... [;)]

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How can they so quickly be sure that it is not a terrorist attack?

 

13 bombs in major public places NOT terrorism, then I dunno what is...

 

Even timothy mcveigh also classified as domestic terrorist after his bombing, so whats so different in this case?

 

Think is China media mouth piece sweep under the carpet to play down these deadly incidents before the national holidays...

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Turbocharged

Very sure they gonna point fingers at some group and after holiday.....eat full full already... piak enough..... whack the living day light out of this group....

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Suspect arrested in Guangxi package bomb blasts
Huo Yan, He Na, China Daily
Thursday, Oct 1, 2015
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Police cordon off an area near a hospital after explosions hit Liucheng county, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. Photo: Reuters
Police have arrested a suspect in the package bombs explosion in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, which killed seven and injured at least 51 on Wednesday afternoon, Xinhua reported.
The 33-year-old, surnamed Wei, is from Dapu township in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
Initial investigations suggest the explosions were caused by 17 package bombs, with blasts reported in more than a dozen locations, including government offices.
The blasts apparently were triggered by devices placed inside express delivery packages, Xinhua said of the explosions, ,which occurred on the eve of China's National Day holiday.
The Ministry of Public Security sent criminal investigators to the scene and said that it was treating the series of explosions as a criminal act, and not terrorism, according to Xinhua.
Five victims died at the scene, and another two were still missing, according to Xinhua.
The explosions occurred in at least 13 locations in rural Liucheng, including a business trade mall, a prison, a government building in Dapu township, a supermarket, a bus station and a hospital, according to the local newspaper Nanguo Morning News and sources from the Liucheng county public security bureau.
Local government officials were quoted as saying that the series of explosions occurred between 3:15 pm and 5:30 pm.
State broadcaster CCTV quoted a local police chief as saying that the blasts were caused by several different explosive devices.
Pictures online showed a half-collapsed building. Witnesses also saw damaged vehicles on the road, Xinhua said.
The injured, some of them in critical condition, were being treated at Liucheng People's Hospital.
The local government launched emergency measures and officials and rescue teams rushed to the affected areas.
The local administration of work safety issued a warning to the public to avoid opening such parcels that they might have received recently.
While the local government said the initial investigation indicates this is a criminal case, Dai Peng, director of the Criminal Investigation College at the People's Public Security University of China, said it might be too early to make such a conclusion.
The blasts might have exposed "loopholes of management of the express delivery industry", said Dai, who also suggested that the blasts might point to the need for real-name registration of both package senders and receivers.

 

 

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