Bombings in China near Communist Party office in Taiyuan
Source: LA Times
In one of the most sophisticated bombing attacks in China in recent years, seven improvised explosive devices detonated almost simultaneously Wednesday near the Communist Party headquarters in the provincial city of Taiyuan.
Initial reports said one person was dead and at least eight others injured, one critically.
The bombs went off at 7.40 a.m., as government employees were streaming in to work, and scattered metal pellets and ball bearings through the crowds.
The bombings come on the heels of last week's attack at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in which a sports utility vehicle plowed through a crowded sidewalk and then was set on fire by its occupants, three ethnic Uighurs from western China. That attack left five dead and raised fears that China was being targeted in a new wave of Islamic terrorism.
A reporter for a Hong Kong-based newspaper reported on her microblog account that the explosions were "initially suspected of being a terror attack," but there was no indication as to who the suspects might be or their ethnicity.
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