Early warning from Beijing bomb man
By Li Qian |
July 22, 2013, Monday
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A MAN in a wheelchair who set off a homemade bomb at a Beijing airport on Saturday evening survived the explosion but had to have his left hand amputated.
A police officer who had gone to speak to him was slightly injured but there were no other casualties. Ji Zhongxing had shouted a warning to everyone to stay away before the blast.
Yesterday, a new investigation was ordered into Ji's claims that an attack by police assistants in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, in 2005 left him paralyzed.
Ji, 34, exploded his device at 6:24pm outside the arrivals hall at Terminal 3 of Beijing Capital International Airport.
At around midnight, after surgery at Jishuitan Hospital, he was taken away in an ambulance under police escort to an unknown destination.
Ji, from east China's Shandong Province, had warned passengers before detonating the small device in an apparent attempt to draw attention to his case without harming others, The Beijing News reported.
"The man shouted: 'I have something to say. I have a bomb. Keep clear!" a nearby shop assistant told the newspaper.
His father was said to be shocked at news of the incident, according to a report on Shandong's news portal (www.dzwww.com). It said Ji Darong told local government officials his son left home at around 4am on Saturday.
Guangdong's police department has ordered police in Dongguan to launch a thorough investigation into Ji's case.
He had written on his blog on Sina Weibo that he was paralyzed during an assault in the south China city in June 2005.
His claims for compensation and demands for his attackers to be punished had been rejected over the past eight years.
"I was shocked to hear news of the explosion. How did he turn to be such a man?" said Wu Xiande, a former journalist who had interviewed Ji after the alleged attack in 2005.
Ji, a motorcycle cabbie, was driving past a police assistants station in Dongguan's Xintang Village when he and his client were stopped and beaten by police assistants, he told Wu. He was knocked off his motorcycle and beaten into unconsciousness.
He suffered severe bruising and lacerations to his hip.
Spinal factures
When Wu visited him two months later, Ji's hip had severely festered because his family couldn't afford medical treatment. Ji said he suffered spinal fractures and had lost the use of his legs, The Beijing Times reported, quoting his blog entries. Yesterday, Ji's blog couldn't be accessed.
Wu's story made headlines at that time.
Dongguan's petition office issued a statement on Saturday night. It said Ji filed a lawsuit against the Xintang village committee in January 2007, asking for compensation of almost 340,000 yuan (US$55,386). Dongguan People's Court rejected the claim in July 2007 on the grounds of insufficient evidence. The city's intermediate court upheld that decision in January 2008.
Police insisted Ji had fallen from his motorcycle himself, the Southern Metropolis Daily said.
The statement said that in March 2010, the township police had given Ji 100,000 yuan and he promised that he wouldn't appeal to higher authorities.
Ji's elder brother, Ji Zhongji, said Ji is unable to work and spends most of his time in bed. Ji Zhongji is the only breadwinner for the family, earning 3,000 yuan per month, the Legal Evening News reported.
"We are too poor," Ji Zhongji said. "I have to support six people." The father of two children is a migrant laborer in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Meanwhile, Beijing police have detained two people for making fake bomb threats.
A 39-year-old Beijing man surnamed Wang dialed 110 at around 9:50pm on Saturday, threatening an explosion at the airport. Police caught him at his home about an hour later. Wang later told police he was venting his dissatisfaction over land disputes and had been drunk.
The other man, Liu, 31, called police at 10:48pm on Saturday to say he planned to blow up an electronic games hall. When police caught him at 12am, Liu said he had spent too much money and felt frustrated.
A police officer who had gone to speak to him was slightly injured but there were no other casualties. Ji Zhongxing had shouted a warning to everyone to stay away before the blast.
Yesterday, a new investigation was ordered into Ji's claims that an attack by police assistants in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, in 2005 left him paralyzed.
Ji, 34, exploded his device at 6:24pm outside the arrivals hall at Terminal 3 of Beijing Capital International Airport.
At around midnight, after surgery at Jishuitan Hospital, he was taken away in an ambulance under police escort to an unknown destination.
Ji, from east China's Shandong Province, had warned passengers before detonating the small device in an apparent attempt to draw attention to his case without harming others, The Beijing News reported.
"The man shouted: 'I have something to say. I have a bomb. Keep clear!" a nearby shop assistant told the newspaper.
His father was said to be shocked at news of the incident, according to a report on Shandong's news portal (www.dzwww.com). It said Ji Darong told local government officials his son left home at around 4am on Saturday.
Guangdong's police department has ordered police in Dongguan to launch a thorough investigation into Ji's case.
He had written on his blog on Sina Weibo that he was paralyzed during an assault in the south China city in June 2005.
His claims for compensation and demands for his attackers to be punished had been rejected over the past eight years.
"I was shocked to hear news of the explosion. How did he turn to be such a man?" said Wu Xiande, a former journalist who had interviewed Ji after the alleged attack in 2005.
Ji, a motorcycle cabbie, was driving past a police assistants station in Dongguan's Xintang Village when he and his client were stopped and beaten by police assistants, he told Wu. He was knocked off his motorcycle and beaten into unconsciousness.
He suffered severe bruising and lacerations to his hip.
Spinal factures
When Wu visited him two months later, Ji's hip had severely festered because his family couldn't afford medical treatment. Ji said he suffered spinal fractures and had lost the use of his legs, The Beijing Times reported, quoting his blog entries. Yesterday, Ji's blog couldn't be accessed.
Wu's story made headlines at that time.
Dongguan's petition office issued a statement on Saturday night. It said Ji filed a lawsuit against the Xintang village committee in January 2007, asking for compensation of almost 340,000 yuan (US$55,386). Dongguan People's Court rejected the claim in July 2007 on the grounds of insufficient evidence. The city's intermediate court upheld that decision in January 2008.
Police insisted Ji had fallen from his motorcycle himself, the Southern Metropolis Daily said.
The statement said that in March 2010, the township police had given Ji 100,000 yuan and he promised that he wouldn't appeal to higher authorities.
Ji's elder brother, Ji Zhongji, said Ji is unable to work and spends most of his time in bed. Ji Zhongji is the only breadwinner for the family, earning 3,000 yuan per month, the Legal Evening News reported.
"We are too poor," Ji Zhongji said. "I have to support six people." The father of two children is a migrant laborer in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Meanwhile, Beijing police have detained two people for making fake bomb threats.
A 39-year-old Beijing man surnamed Wang dialed 110 at around 9:50pm on Saturday, threatening an explosion at the airport. Police caught him at his home about an hour later. Wang later told police he was venting his dissatisfaction over land disputes and had been drunk.
The other man, Liu, 31, called police at 10:48pm on Saturday to say he planned to blow up an electronic games hall. When police caught him at 12am, Liu said he had spent too much money and felt frustrated.
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