Bomb Blast in Kunming,China

bd popeye · Jul 21, 2008

Bomb Blast rocks Hunan province, China

I was very surprised to hear this on the news this morning on ABC. It's not the sort of news I would expect to hear from the PRC.

Is this some sort of attack by disgruntled farmers, an attempted robbery, or the work of those that wish to disrupt the upcomming Olympics?

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A homemade bomb exploded on a crowded bus in central China Monday, injuring 37 people.

According to police in Changsha, Hunan province, no one was killed, though three people are in serious condition. One man had both his legs blown off. The suspect, a man about 30 years old, was on board the bus and fled the scene.

Police have not said what the motive for the bombing might have been.

On January 6, a similar bomb exploded on a bus in northeast Liaoning province, killing 19 people. Police say the motive was robbery; the bomber hoped to fleece the stunned passengers.

Also in Changsha, up to 500 workers staged a protest on a vital bridge, demanding unpaid wages.

Traffic was brought to a standstill on the bridge, which links Changsha with western Hunan province.

Some reports suggested that police fired into the crowd, but this has not been confirmed.

Protests are a relatively common occurrence in the Chinese countryside, but rarely lead to violence.

SampanViking · Jul 21, 2008

Re: Bomb Blast rocks Hunan province, China

I think you need to switch news networks Big Daddy

. The bombs went off in Kunming the capital of Yunnan Province which is over 1000 miles further South West of Changsha.

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This has all the hallmarks of a terrorist incident.

Yunnan is a border Province and has many minorities including some from a certain neighbouring province to the North West.

PrOeLiTeZ · Jul 21, 2008

Re: Bomb Blast rocks Hunan province, China

sounds like the work of seperatist

bd popeye · Jul 21, 2008

SampanViking said:
I think you need to switch news networks Big Daddy. The bombs went off in Kunming the capital of Yunnan Province which is over 1000 miles further South West of Changsha.

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This has all the hallmarks of a terrorist incident.

Yunnan is a border Province and has many minorities including some from a certain neighbouring province to the North West.

Thanks S.Viking..That's what I get for watching the American Broadcasting Company!!!

There's not much news here in the US about the bombing. I was hoping to get some better or first hand news in this forum.

Here's a photo of the bus. The damage does not look too bad. Of course we were not there & effected by the explosion..

Chinese police remove one of two public buses after an explosion in downtown Kunming, in southwest China's Yunnan province on July 21, 2008, killed two people and injured 14 others. The city police said the two bus explosions were deliberate acts, as according to their preliminary investigations, the explosions were cases of man-made, deliberate sabotage.

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RedMercury · Jul 21, 2008

Looks like a smallish home-made bomb. Perhaps not very advanced bomb making or not intended to kill many people. Al Jazeera's article mentioned a dispute between farmers and local officials as a possible backdrop.

Anyway, it's a terrorist attack for sure, but if it is one of those bombings caused by some local dispute that happens in China every once in awhile, it really isn't that big of a deal (but perhaps can be used as a reason for further tightening security. The wheels of bureaucracy inside the government must be spinning a thousand mph). However, the fact that two (and perhaps more, unexploded) nearly simultaneous bombings suggest an organized force (at least a few people).

AssassinsMace · Jul 21, 2008

I've read about home-made bombings in China before. Most of the time it's the act of individuals with a grudge. The Westen media is only paying attention to this because of the Olympics. Just like I hear people say if there were any protesting in China, the protestors would be rounded up and all executed by the governement. China has tens of thousands of protests every year.

If this is an act by independence minded people, then let's see if they take credit. My money is they won't if it is separatists. Which is why they've been watching too much TV and movies and their goal will never be achieved. What would be the point if you don't claim your political goal. So it would mean they just enjoy killing innocent people which would work against their romanticized image of themselves.

PrOeLiTeZ · Jul 21, 2008

explosive dont have to be advanced for it to be effective. it kills it works. IED aren't that advanced in the explosive technolgy area yet they kill countless numbers of US soldiers and vehicles. though this bombing i would consider it an early warning or a threat rather then a killing spree.

kunmingren · Jul 21, 2008

yea, i was really suprise to hear that. I was actually born in kunming and lived there for ten years. I never had expected anything like that happening there. Its a really peaceful place, i doubt its terrisim.

The media keep bringing up the fact that there are muslim and tibetan population in Yunnan, but i think its kinda misleading. Most minorities in yunnan are neither muslim nor tibetan. I bet if anything this is done by either criminal gangs or digruntled unemployed factory worker.

bd popeye · Jul 21, 2008

More Photos of the bombing.

Chinese police remove one of two public buses after an explosion in downtown Kunming, in southwest China's Yunnan province on July 21, 2008, killed two people and injured 14 others. The city police said the two bus explosions were deliberate acts, as according to their preliminary investigations, the explosions were cases of man-made, deliberate sabotage.

Finn McCool · Jul 22, 2008

From the location of this bomb blast (provincial Kunming rather than Beijing or Shanghai, or divisive Lhasa and Urumqui) and the relatively weak nature of the bomb, it would seem to me that this is the work of a disgruntled "mad bomber" type. I just don't see the work of a true terrorist group-behind this; maybe a single person or a few people with terrorist like motives but not a proper terrorist group.

Bomb Blast in Kunming,China

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