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'I don't know how many people will be killed by me'

POLICE yesterday published the online chat logs and diary of a bomber responsible for a government office blast that killed the man and three other people and injured 16 others in southwest China's Yunnan Province last week.

Zhao Dengyong, 26, from Baogunao township in Qiaojia County, detonated explosives at a housing demolition office in the town of Baihetan at around 9am last Thursday.

"This cruel society is driving me crazy. I don't know how many people will be killed by me when I can't go on with my life," Zhao wrote to an unknown correspondent via QQ, a popular instant messaging program in China.

"I have nothing, except for my healthy body. Those bastards believe that money talks. Don't they know that if I can't live, they can't either?" Zhao wrote in his online diary.

Based on the diary entries and chat logs, as well as interviews with local residents and surveillance video footage of the bombing, Qiaojia County police believe Zhao's motivation was not purely his anger with the housing demolition office, but also his hatred for society.

Four people who were severely injured were rushed to a hospital in the provincial capital of Kunming, while 12 others are being treated locally.

Police said earlier that the blast was not related to demolition work in Zhao's hometown of Baogunao, some 100 kilometers from Baihetan.

The three who died were a female villager, Ran Yi, 30, a male villager named Tang Tianrong, 25, and county housing demolition official Hu Zongyu, 39, according to government officials.

Officials at the site were signing compensation agreements with local villagers over the demolition of their homes when the incident happened.





 

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