Paralyzed villager's revenge
By Li Qian |
September 4, 2012, Tuesday
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A villager launched a suicide bomb attack in a government building in east China in revenge for authorities' refusal to offer adequate compensation for injuries he sustained at work.
Qu Huaqiang, 49, killed himself and injured six others when he set off explosives in the Tengjia township government building in Weihai, Shandong Province, at around 8am yesterday, police said.
Qu became paralyzed due to an accident at work in 1994 and was said to have been abandoned by his family.
Sitting in a wheelchair, Qu was pushed to the government building and ignited explosives while county officials were talking to him. Six people were injured and remain in hospital, police said on their microblog at t.qq.com.
A netizen called Dabaie said he had found a letter Qu had written before the attack.
The letter is believed to be Qu's last words.
"Dear friends, I hope you'll stay patient to go through my letter," Qu is said to have written. "You will hear the huge blast soon and I want you to know why I set off explosion as revenge."
The letter described how a crane collapsed and hit him during the building of a hotel in Rongcheng, another city in Shandong, in 1994.
He suffered bleeding in his brain, breastbone fractures and damage to his nervous system and right eye. His injuries meant he had to use a wheelchair and, after a year, his wife divorced him.
Qu wrote that the Tengjia Town Construction Engineering Company neither covered his medical bills nor supported his further treatment and refused to pay him an income since the accident. "The company's practice caused me to miss the best time to treat my injuries," Qu wrote.
In 1997, he said he was forced to sign an agreement for compensation and subsidies which were less than he needed.
Qu said he wrote at least two letters a month to higher authorities in the city, the province and even the central government. But he received either no reply or a refusal to consider his requests.
"I suffered injustice but found nowhere to speak out about my miserable experience. Today, I become an avenger," Qu said at the end of the letter.
There has been no official comment so far on the allegations in Qu's letter.
Qu Huaqiang, 49, killed himself and injured six others when he set off explosives in the Tengjia township government building in Weihai, Shandong Province, at around 8am yesterday, police said.
Qu became paralyzed due to an accident at work in 1994 and was said to have been abandoned by his family.
Sitting in a wheelchair, Qu was pushed to the government building and ignited explosives while county officials were talking to him. Six people were injured and remain in hospital, police said on their microblog at t.qq.com.
A netizen called Dabaie said he had found a letter Qu had written before the attack.
The letter is believed to be Qu's last words.
"Dear friends, I hope you'll stay patient to go through my letter," Qu is said to have written. "You will hear the huge blast soon and I want you to know why I set off explosion as revenge."
The letter described how a crane collapsed and hit him during the building of a hotel in Rongcheng, another city in Shandong, in 1994.
He suffered bleeding in his brain, breastbone fractures and damage to his nervous system and right eye. His injuries meant he had to use a wheelchair and, after a year, his wife divorced him.
Qu wrote that the Tengjia Town Construction Engineering Company neither covered his medical bills nor supported his further treatment and refused to pay him an income since the accident. "The company's practice caused me to miss the best time to treat my injuries," Qu wrote.
In 1997, he said he was forced to sign an agreement for compensation and subsidies which were less than he needed.
Qu said he wrote at least two letters a month to higher authorities in the city, the province and even the central government. But he received either no reply or a refusal to consider his requests.
"I suffered injustice but found nowhere to speak out about my miserable experience. Today, I become an avenger," Qu said at the end of the letter.
There has been no official comment so far on the allegations in Qu's letter.
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