Police seize suspect in tax office bomb blast
By Li Xinran |
August 9, 2010, Monday
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A MAN is being held in connection with a recent tax office explosion which left four people dead and 19 others injured in Changsha City, capital of Hunan Province.
Liu Zhuiheng, 51, was seized in Quanzhou City of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region early yesterday, Changsha police said.
On July 30, a bomb exploded on the third floor of a branch of Furong District's taxation office on Hengda Road near a residential block at about 4:15pm, police said.
Liu, from Hengyang City in Hunan, is alleged to have placed a bomb at the scene and detonated it by remote control.
Earlier reports quoted a police officer saying that Liu might have had a grudge against local banker Peng Maowu, and wanted to vent his anger by killing his son, Peng Tao, a tax officer.
The explosive device was said to have been made by Liu and placed outside a room where Peng Tao was attending a meeting. Three men, including Peng Tao, and one woman died at the scene.
Police had offered a 100,000 yuan (US$14,760) reward for tip-offs leading to the arrest of Liu.
Meanwhile, police in Changsha have arrested a man suspected of setting fire to an airport shuttle bus on July 21. Two people died in the subsequent explosion.
The suspect, Shen Haitao, 36, was arrested in the hospital where he and other victims were sent for treatment.
Shen is said to have lit a canvas bag full of inflammable material.
Police said Shen, from Hunan's Yiyang City, arrived at Huanghua International Airport in Changsha on July 21, hopped on a shuttle bus to downtown, and lit the bag while the bus, which was full, was on an expressway.
Three people were seriously injured, 11 others had minor burns, police said.
Liu Zhuiheng, 51, was seized in Quanzhou City of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region early yesterday, Changsha police said.
On July 30, a bomb exploded on the third floor of a branch of Furong District's taxation office on Hengda Road near a residential block at about 4:15pm, police said.
Liu, from Hengyang City in Hunan, is alleged to have placed a bomb at the scene and detonated it by remote control.
Earlier reports quoted a police officer saying that Liu might have had a grudge against local banker Peng Maowu, and wanted to vent his anger by killing his son, Peng Tao, a tax officer.
The explosive device was said to have been made by Liu and placed outside a room where Peng Tao was attending a meeting. Three men, including Peng Tao, and one woman died at the scene.
Police had offered a 100,000 yuan (US$14,760) reward for tip-offs leading to the arrest of Liu.
Meanwhile, police in Changsha have arrested a man suspected of setting fire to an airport shuttle bus on July 21. Two people died in the subsequent explosion.
The suspect, Shen Haitao, 36, was arrested in the hospital where he and other victims were sent for treatment.
Shen is said to have lit a canvas bag full of inflammable material.
Police said Shen, from Hunan's Yiyang City, arrived at Huanghua International Airport in Changsha on July 21, hopped on a shuttle bus to downtown, and lit the bag while the bus, which was full, was on an expressway.
Three people were seriously injured, 11 others had minor burns, police said.
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