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| China shopping centre bomb injures (Social Orders) |
| | Poster: AFP | Posting Date: 2005-07-07 | |
A bomb exploded in a shopping centre in northeast China, injuring 47 people and shattering windows, state media reported. Xinhua news agency said one person was seriously injured in the blast, which occurred around midday Wednesday at the Zhengde shopping centre in Liaoning province's Liaoyang county, 580 kilometres (930 miles) northeast of Beijing. A fugitive murder suspect named Ma Yuanxi had thrown an "explosive package" at a another man in a revenge attack, the agency said. The blast shattered all the windows in the two-storey shopping centre, it said. The injured had been taken to hospital and the attack was being investigated, Xinhua said. Ma, who was caught, had been suspected of murder when he was in charge of a mine in the northern province of Hebei and was on the run from police, it said without giving further details. Explosives are easy to come by in China, especially in mining areas, and are sometimes used in attacks blamed on disgruntled workers and others with a score to settle. In January a bomb killed 11 people on a bus in northwestern Xinjiang region. That blast was blamed on a disgruntled worker who held a grudge against his former employer, a coal mining company near the scene of the explosion.
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