Source: The News International, Pakistan
August 9, 2005
SHANGHAI: A suicide bomber was killed and 31 people injured after a homemade device was detonated on a bus in southeastern China on Monday, state media reported. The blast occurred near the downtown area of Fujian’s provincial capital Fuzhou at around 2:30 pm, Xinhua news agency reported.
The explosion on the single-decker bus was powerful enough to shatter the windows of shops nearby, it said. Pictures from the scene showed the side of the bus ripped apart and debris strewn across the floor of the vehicle. The injured were shown being stretcher out of windows. The suspect, a 42-year-old farmer, was believed to be from Putian city in the province and according to police was suffering from terminal lung cancer, the report said. He was killed in the blast.
Attacks of this kind are common in China, often carried out by angry residents who feel wronged by society or the communist party government. In January a bomb killed 11 people on a bus in northwestern Xinjiang region. That was blamed on a worker who held a grudge against his former employer, a coal mining company near the scene of the explosion. There were 1,130 bombings around China last year, according to state press reports.
