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| Seven killed, 31 injured in three bomb attacks in China |
| 2003-09-22 |
| At least seven people were killed and 31 injured after three separate premeditated blasts rocked China including one at a Carrefour shopping center in central Wuhan city, state press reported Monday. Four people were killed and 23 injured in central China’s Hubei province when an explosion occurred as firemen and medical workers were trying to fight a blaze at a government institute. The explosion occurred in the middle of the night in the city of Yichang, close to the massive Three Gorges Dam on China’s Yangtze river. Emergency rescue workers had been called to fight the blaze at a two-storey dormitory building of a company belonging to the Hubei geological survey team, the report said. While firefighters fought the blaze and medical workers began treating residents in the dormitory, a sudden explosion sent firemen and rescue personnel sprawling to the ground. Humm, either something like a propane tank cooked off, or somebody set a fire and left a bomb for responders. Report seems to indicate they think it was a bomb. In a separate blast Sunday evening in the Hubei provincial capital of Wuhan, three people were slightly injured when a bomb went off in a Carrefour shopping center in the Hanyang district. Meanwhile, three people were killed and five injured when a bomb went off in Baoji city, Shaanxi province late Sunday evening, a Chinese business daily reported. Busy sunday night in China. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 When this happened a few months ago, the government attributed it to a guy with marital problems and shakedown artists. Must be a lot of that going around over there. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-9-22 11:16:33 AM |
| #1 I am surprised that word of the bombings has reached the West. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-9-22 10:59:31 AM |