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Bus bomb attack man goes on trial
By Li Xinran |
January 15, 2009, Thursday
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A MAN over a bus bomb attack in Guangzhou on August 21 went on trial on Tuesday.
Huang Xin, 25, from Binyang County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, was charged with placing a home-made time bomb on a No. 125 bus on August 21 in an attempt to force Guangzhou's mayor and a local newspaper to reveal codes to win a lottery, the New Express Daily reported yesterday.
Prosecutors said Huang placed the bomb beneath a seat over the bus' left rear wheel. It exploded about 4pm leaving a large hole in the floor. The driver and the only passenger onboard were not injured.
Huang was seized by police with another time bomb at 7am the next day in his temporary residence in Guangzhou's Huadu District.
Huang confessed he had planned to place the bomb in the newsroom of a Guangzhou newspaper he bought regularly. He wanted to extort the winning codes from the newspaper management because he believed he had been misled by the newspaper's lottery tips.
But because he had no idea where the newsroom was, Huang modified his plan by placing the bomb on the bus along with a letter to Mayor Zhang Guangning asking him to urge the newspaper to disclose the codes.
Mobile number
Huang included his mobile phone number in the letter and warned he would attack Guangzhou with more bombs if his demands were not met, prosecutors said.
Huang got off the bus one stop after he got on, sent two short messages to the newspaper and called the police.
The letter was torn into pieces in the blast but was put back together later by police.
In the letter Huang said the lottery codes had to be sent to his mobile phone within five hours, otherwise many people would be killed and Guangzhou would have the eyes of the nation on it. He signed the letter "wishing you a pleasant collaboration."
Huang's attorney said his client's plan was definitely insane and proposed a forensic psychiatric assessment.
The court said it would consider the proposal.
Huang confessed to the court that he had learned to make bombs in his hometown. He made the two time bombs in Guangzhou using black powder from his hometown, waste material from a factory and an electric fan timer.
Huang said he wanted to blow up a bank and the newspaper as he had once got five fake 100 yuan bank notes from a bank's ATM and was cheated about lottery information by the newspaper.
Huang said he had tried to stop the explosion by calling the police shortly after setting the bomb. Huang used to work for a machinery manufacturer in Huadu District and had been spurned by a woman worker he fell in love with.
Huang Xin, 25, from Binyang County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, was charged with placing a home-made time bomb on a No. 125 bus on August 21 in an attempt to force Guangzhou's mayor and a local newspaper to reveal codes to win a lottery, the New Express Daily reported yesterday.
Prosecutors said Huang placed the bomb beneath a seat over the bus' left rear wheel. It exploded about 4pm leaving a large hole in the floor. The driver and the only passenger onboard were not injured.
Huang was seized by police with another time bomb at 7am the next day in his temporary residence in Guangzhou's Huadu District.
Huang confessed he had planned to place the bomb in the newsroom of a Guangzhou newspaper he bought regularly. He wanted to extort the winning codes from the newspaper management because he believed he had been misled by the newspaper's lottery tips.
But because he had no idea where the newsroom was, Huang modified his plan by placing the bomb on the bus along with a letter to Mayor Zhang Guangning asking him to urge the newspaper to disclose the codes.
Mobile number
Huang included his mobile phone number in the letter and warned he would attack Guangzhou with more bombs if his demands were not met, prosecutors said.
Huang got off the bus one stop after he got on, sent two short messages to the newspaper and called the police.
The letter was torn into pieces in the blast but was put back together later by police.
In the letter Huang said the lottery codes had to be sent to his mobile phone within five hours, otherwise many people would be killed and Guangzhou would have the eyes of the nation on it. He signed the letter "wishing you a pleasant collaboration."
Huang's attorney said his client's plan was definitely insane and proposed a forensic psychiatric assessment.
The court said it would consider the proposal.
Huang confessed to the court that he had learned to make bombs in his hometown. He made the two time bombs in Guangzhou using black powder from his hometown, waste material from a factory and an electric fan timer.
Huang said he wanted to blow up a bank and the newspaper as he had once got five fake 100 yuan bank notes from a bank's ATM and was cheated about lottery information by the newspaper.
Huang said he had tried to stop the explosion by calling the police shortly after setting the bomb. Huang used to work for a machinery manufacturer in Huadu District and had been spurned by a woman worker he fell in love with.
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