2 Dead and 40 Other Injured in a Series of Blasts in China

 

This series of explosions comes ten days after a 4×4 plowed into the crowd and caught fire in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, leaving two dead and 40 wounded.

Explosive devices apparently targeting the headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of Shanxi Province (north) killed one person Wednesday, November 6, announced police and media – ten days after an attack on Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

“There have been several successive explosions caused by small explosive devices near the party headquarters in Taiyuan”, the capital of Shanxi, said the city police on its official microblog account.

The explosions, which were heard shortly before 8 hours (1 hour in France), killed one person and wounded eight others, one seriously, said a provincial government information website, citing police.

“Officials from the public security are now on the scene and investigating the incident,” she added, noting that provincial and municipal managers were also immediately visited the site.

Bombs?

“The explosions could be due to roadside bombs” because fragments of steel ball bearings were visible at the scene, reported the official news agency China. explosive devices may contain steel balls to increase the number of potential victims.

Some of the explosives were placed in flower beds at the entrance of the building housing the headquarters of the provincial party committee, said for his part of the state television CCTV.

Photographs posted on social network Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, showed vehicle doors riddled with small impacts and punctured tires. In other shots, you could see a car windshield broken, glass fragments on the floor.

On a photo, a man holds in his hand large metal balls – apparently found among the debris littering the pavement. Twenty vehicles parked a hundred yards around were damaged, said CCTV.

September detonations

According to testimony reported by the newspaper “Caixin” seven separate explosions, over several minutes, were heard and the ground shook under the power of explosions, whose impact was visible at 100 meters.

Two other witnesses cited by the agency China News, recounted hearing a loud noise and overview of smoke just before attending the explosion of a truck.

More photos on social networks showed a plume of gray smoke, several fire trucks across a street blocked to traffic, and a large crowd gathered on one side of the artery.

“Many officials in Shanxi, including those in charge of public safety and the management of petitions[citizens' complaints, Ed] have emergency meeting, “reported” Caixin “on its official Weibo account.

Censorship

This series of explosions came after a 4×4 plowed into the crowd on Monday last week and caught fire in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, killing two, in addition to the three occupants of the vehicle, and 40 wounded.

The Chinese authorities have said that this attack still unclaimed, was supported by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (Etim), a separatist splinter group of Xinjiang (north-east), classified as a terrorist organization by the UN.

This weekend in Beijing should open a plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, which should be discussed including significant economic reforms.

After the attack instead Tiananmen , the authorities had made a vast movement of internet censorship, deleting pictures, testimonials and comments.

In contrast, many photographs showing damage Taiyuan explosions were broadcast Wednesday on Chinese social networks, and the words “provincial committee (Party) Shanxi” was the fifth most popular topic on Weibo.

2 Dead and 40 Other Injured in a Series of Blasts in China