Suspect among victims of homemade bombs
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DNA tests have confirmed that the suspect in 18 explosions in a southern Chinese county that killed 10 people and injured 51 others died in the blasts, police said yesterday.
Wei Yinyong, 33, is believed to have assembled homemade time bombs and disguised them as packages, then either planted them or hired people to deliver them to different locations, said police in Liuzhou, the city which administers Liucheng County where many of the explosions occurred.
Police believe Wei committed the crime to take revenge on villagers and institutions he had disputes with in the quarrying business.
The blasts occurred in at least 13 locations in the county and areas surrounding Liuzhou in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, including the seat of the local government, a shopping mall and an animal husbandry bureau dormitory, according to media reports.
Police identified Wei as the suspect through DNA tests on evidence collected from the crime scenes.
The first explosion was heard around 3:15pm on September 30, the Nanguo Morning News reported, adding that three people died in the blast at the dormitory, which was badly damaged.
Pictures posted online showed gutted and collapsed buildings, and streets littered with glass, bricks and other debris.
Others showed overturned cars, victims bandaged and on makeshift stretchers and plumes of grey smoke rising above a residential district.
There have been a series of cases in China in which people with grievances or who were involved in feuds have used homemade bombs to blow up themselves and others.
Domestic courier services have been tightening security checks since the Liuzhou explosions.
“At the moment we don’t accept liquid and powder packages,” said Zuo Rongjun, a manager at a Shanghai outlet of the YTO Express, one of the major courier services in China.
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