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Another Chinese bus hijacking
2005-05-13
Police in northwest China's Xinjiang region shot dead a man armed with dynamite who hijacked a long-distance bus heading for the regional capital Urumqi, state media reported on Thursday.
Xinjiang = distant muslim region
The man boarded the bus as it refuelled at a filling station in a suburb of Yining city on Wednesday afternoon and threatened to blow it up, Xinhua news agency said. Acting on a tip-off, police rushed to the scene and urged him to give up, but he ignited the dynamite so they shot him.
A tip-off? You mean brick-shitting bus passengers called the cops on their mobile phones?
The explosives started a fire on the bus but no one was seriously hurt.
No earth-shattering kaboom? Probably cheap knockoff explosives...typical for China.
Xinhua said initial investigations pointed to a clear need for a cover-up family dispute leading to the incident. It was not clear what his demands were or how many people were on the bus at the time. In January, a man boarded a bus in Xinjiang and blew it up, killing 11 people and injuring seven. The blast was blamed on a disaffected worker. Initially police said it could be linked to Muslim separatists of the Uighur minority group who have been blamed for past violence in the region. Turkic-speaking Uighur separatists have been fighting to re-establish an independent state of East Turkestan in Xinjiang. They accuse the ruling Chinese of political, religious and cultural repression.
Posted by:gromky

#4  "The explosives started a fire on the bus but no one was seriously hurt." Maybe he was angry because his wife kept mislaying his detonators?
Posted by: James   2005-05-13 11:34  

#3  Hijacking a bus with dynamite to resolve a "family dispute"? I'll have to remember that one...
Posted by: tu3031   2005-05-13 11:26  

#2  Take thees bus to Havana?
Posted by: mojo   2005-05-13 10:36  

#1  modernization can be tough
Posted by: bk   2005-05-13 09:45  

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