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| Investigation into Kunming bus bombing continues, explosive identified |
| 2008-07-23 |
| An odd one, this. Kunming is quite distant from any Olympic venue - Yunnan province is in the middle of nowhere. Why would anyone bomb an ordinary city bus? If it was terrorism, then why no claim of responsibility? If it was some farmer who got screwed out of his farm, then why would he bomb a bus? In the wake of yesterday's bomb attacks on two buses on Renmin Xi Lu, some new bits of information are trickling out through local media. Here are some of the latest developments: A criminal investigation unit dispatched from Beijing arrived in Kunming yesterday afternoon. By 7:45 pm all on-site investigation for both explosions had basically concluded, with traffic returning to normal. Investigators have identified the explosive in both explosions as ammonium nitrate, a common fertilizer that is often used in homemade bombs. As early as 5:00 am on Monday, some Kunming residents received what is being treated by police as possibly being a text message warning from the bomber(s), which reads: "I hope the city residents who receive this text message don't take the 54, 64 or 84 buses..." The sender, whose number displayed as anonymous, referred to him/herself as "the mobilizer of nobodies". Police have confirmed that numerous people received this message the morning of the explosions. Kunming vice mayor Du Min has been quoted by Xinhua as saying that there was no text message prior to Monday's explosions, according to a Reuters report. "In fact, there was no such message," Xinhua news agency quoted Du as saying on Tuesday, according to Reuters. Hard to say, fakes of this kind are common in China, people will want to make something true so they say it's true. On the other hand, the government is well-known for coverups. Thirteen of the 14 injured in yesterday's explosion are in stable condition, with one victim, a woman, still in the intensive care unit at Kunming First Affiliated Hospital in critical condition. One of the injured is a pregnant woman who herself is fine but her fetus is still undergoing tests. Most of the injured suffered at least one broken eardrum and some skin damage. |
| Posted by:gromky |
| #1 Kunming sounds like a fictional Pr0n movie town name |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-07-23 21:16 |