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Six people were killed on Wednesday when 15 suspected letter bombs exploded in southern China, state media said, with blasts reported in more than ten locations including government offices.
Dozens more were injured by the explosives apparently placed in express delivery packages, the official Xinhua news agency said of the blasts on the eve of China’s national day holiday.
The explosions occurred in at least 13 locations in a rural county in the Guangxi region, the Nanguo Morning News, a local newspaper, cited police as saying.
They included a prison, a government office and a shopping centre, it said.
Buildings collapsed
Pictures posted online, which could not be verified, showed portions of six-storey buildings gutted and collapsed, and streets littered with glass, bricks and other debris.
Other photos showed overturned cars, victims bandaged and on makeshift stretchers and plumes of grey smoke rising above a residential district.
State broadcaster CCTV quoted a local police chief as saying the blasts were caused by several different explosive devices, adding that “the case is understood to be a criminal one”.
The blasts occurred at the seat of Liucheng county and surrounding areas, said Xinhua, which initially reported three dead.
It said rescue workers had rushed to the scene. It added:
Initial investigation showed that explosives could be inside express delivery packages.
In recent years several disgruntled Chinese citizens have bombed local government offices and public places to try to draw attention to their grievances.
In 2013 a man set off a series of homemade bombs packed with ball-bearings outside a provincial government headquarters in northern China, killing at least one person and wounding eight.
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@Ronan Sexton: When are we getting a referendum to stop it going into private pockets? i thought as much.
@Sean Conway: I give up, when?
@Ronan Sexton: If everyone had paid their IW charges they would be refunding over €338m instead they are refunding just €173m which is just over 51% of expected revenue!
The 2 Committees set up re water both recommended a Referendum to enshrine our water services and infrastructure in public ownership and this was agreed by majority n the Dail so how can a minority Government ignore those recommendations?Joan Collins’s Referendum Bill re same was agreed to in 2016& went to 2nd stage but delayed & now forgotten….but not by the public who don’t want our water services and infrastructure to be privatised!
If someone died who paid the water charges and then got a refund, where or how can the refund get cashed does anyone know?
@Suzanne Bell: I think the ferryman on the Styx accepts them.
@Suzanne Bell: Through the solicitor that dealt with the execution of the will.
@B9xiRspG: do you really want to go through all that hassle, drawing this corrupt fake company on you?
@B9xiRspG: thanks Jim
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