Images of a man on a wheelchair who blew himself up at the arrival
wing of Beijing’s international airport today at around 6.24pm local time has
gone viral on the internet.
The alleged bomber who has been identified as Ji
Zhongxing, from Heze in Shandong province was said to have carried out this
dastardly act in protest to what policemen did to him. Bomber Jin Zhongxing ,34
was running an unlicensed tuk-tuk service and was stopped and beaten and
disabled in 2005, according to his letter.
The explosion happened as flights from New York, Hong Kong
and Fukuoka in Japan were scheduled to arrive at what is the world’s second
busiest airport.
The man is thought to have detonated a package of gunpowder
used to make firecrackers.
Witnesses told local media the man had been shouting before
the apparent detonation.
Photographs posted on Chinese social media- Weibo (Chinese
equivalent of twitter) showed a man in a wheelchair with his arms aloft and
holding a white object in his left hand.
The man was initially suspected to have died in the blast in
Terminal 3 at around 6.24pm local time, but Chinese state media has now said he
survived and was taken to hospital.
It said there were no other injuries, that no flights had
been affected, and that order had been restored at the airport.
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