Blasts near east China government buildings injure five 1:12am EDT http://www.reuters.com/assets/print?aid=USTRE74P0OU20110526 BEIJING (Reuters) - Blasts at three sites near government buildings in an eastern Chinese city likely caused by a disgruntled farmer damaged 10 cars and injured at least five people on Thursday, state media reported.
The cause of the near-simultaneous blasts several minutes' drive apart in Fuzhou, Jiangxi province, was being investigated, Xinhua news agency said, but it cited a source at the provincial government saying a disgruntled farmer was most likely to blame. The blasts shook the prosecutor's office, a district-level government office and the district food and drug administration, Xinhua said. Most of the windows in the eight-storey prosecutor's office were shattered after the explosion less than 100 meters away, it added. The Fuzhou government did not answer calls seeking comment. Jiangxi province is home to many mines, which use explosives, and fireworks manufacturers. In past years, disgruntled or mentally unstable Chinese citizens have set off explosions near buildings or on buses. Such "sudden incidents," as China refers to them, underscore broader government worries about stability in the world's second-largest economy, with a widening gap between rich and poor and growing anger at corruption and environmental issues. This Fuzhou is not the same city as the provincial capital of the neighboring province of Fujian, which is spelled the same in English. Earlier this month, a petrol bomb set off by a disgruntled former employee at a rural bank in a heavily Tibetan region of northwestern China's Gansu province wounded 49 people. In 2001, a string of explosions at workers' dormitories in the northern city of Shijiazhuang killed 108 people. ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
