Deadly blasts in eastern China (Three explosions at government offices in the city of Fuzhou)

[Turborama]

Source: Al Jazeera English

Three explosions at government offices in the city of Fuzhou kill two and injure six, state media reports.
Last Modified: May 26 2011 04:13 GMT -



Explosions are reported at three government buildings in an eastern Chinese city, possibly caused by explosions in cars, according to state media.

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The nearly simultaneous blasts happened in Fuzhou city, Jiangxi province, on Thursday morning, the official Xinhua news agency reported. It did not give details of the cause or casualties.

Al Jazeera's Andrew Thomas reported from Beijing that all three explosions occurred within half an hour of each other.

A car exploded outside the prosecutor's office in Fuzhou city, then 10 minutes later an explosion went off at a district government building. Fifteen minutes after that, a car exploded outside a drug administration office, said an official at the information office of Jiangxi province.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/05/201152635539179264.html

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One of the three blasts that struck the city of Fuzhou on Thursday (http://news.ifeng.com/mainland/special/fuzhoubaozha/content-3/detail_2011_05/26/6642278_0.shtml?_from_ralated">Courtesy of Chinese media)

[Egnever]

1. Woa

So many people! is the air really smoggy as well?

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Much has been written about the infamous smog in China's cities.

[tomm2thumbs]

2. pretty significant news - not something China could hide away either

woa is right

[erodriguez]

3. Revolution?

[Marengo]

4. Oh Shit...Stand by for a new "strike hard" campaign. NT