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Young man confesses to setting Guangzhou bus blaze
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A 25-year-old man has confessed to setting a bus on fire in Guangzhou last night, leaving two dead and 32 others injured, Guangzhou police announced today.
Police captured the Hunan Province native, surnamed Ou, at 11:47pm in Baiyun District, officers said. An explosion ripped through a bus around 7:30pm, police said.
Ou confessed to setting the fire during an interrogation at 1:51pm today, police said.
He said he committed arson because he had lost money on gambling and wanted to take revenge on the society.
At least eight people were critically injured.
A woman who was three months pregnant was among the injured, but her condition was not critical, said sources with the No. 2 People’s Hospital in the capital city of south China’s Guangdong Province.
Of the six injured passengers who were sent to the hospital, two were in critical condition.
The other injured passengers were rushed to Xinghai Hospital and No. 421 Hospital in downtown Guangzhou.
Most victims suffered burn-related injuries, and in the severest case, burns exceeded 60 percent of the body surface.
The blast went off on a bus that was in service on route 301 around 7:30pm, a spokesman for Guangzhou’s public security bureau said.
The packed bus had pulled over at Nandunhe stop on Guangzhou Avenue and its doors were still open when the blast happened.
On the other hand, police in Hunan’s Hengyang city are investigating whether Ou was the one who put metal framework on high-speed railway track to damage bullet trains in two incidents on June 25 and July 6 respectively.
In the first incident, a passenger high-speed train was damaged after running into a “triangular metal framework,” near the village of Quanzi in Hengyang City.
On July 6, villagers spotted a metal obstacle on a section of track about 2 kilometers from where the first was seen.
The railway line connects Wuhan in Hubei Province to Guangzhou in Guangdong Province.
Ou is also from Hunan’s Hengyang City.
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