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Bus blasts kill 3, injure 14 in southwest China
Three separate bus explosions killed at least three people and injured 14 in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming on Monday, media said, amid a security clampdown ahead of next month's Beijing Olympics.The causes were not immediately clear, but the blasts came within a matter of hours of each other in the capital of Yunnan province and less than three weeks before the Beijing Games, which China has warned could be a target of terrorist attacks. An explosion on one bus happened at the Panjiawan stop at 7.10 a.m. and the second blast was nearby, the official Xinhua news agency said. Pictures showed a gaping hold in the side of one of the buses and glass scattered in the street. Another explosion occurred near Minshan, also nearby, the semi-official China News Service said in a report on its Web site (www.chinanews.com.cn). Two people were killed at the scene and one died on the way to hospital, the report said. But a Yunnan government official said there had only been two explosions. "We're still investigating the cause," the official said by telephone from Kunming, declining further comment. Posted by: tipper 2008-07-21 |
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