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Powerful bus blast kills up to 30 in Jiangxi
Up to 30 people were killed when a double-decker bus exploded in eastern China, in a blast so powerful it was heard several kilometers (miles) away, state press and local officials said.
"I can only tell you that it was a sudden and unexpected explosion," Huang Hailing, a local official in Shangrao city, Jiangxi province, told AFP Thursday. The bus blast was triggered by an explosion that hit a nearby truck loaded with firecrackers and powder, Xinhua News Agency cited local police as saying. The truck was travelling from Liuyang City of central Hunan Province, a major firecracker producer.
The long-distance bus was traveling from southern Shenzhen city near Hong Kong to eastern Zhejiang province when the blast occurred at about 4:00 am near Shangrao, Xinhua said. "Police said that the exact death toll is hard to tell now, as victims were exploded into pieces," the report said, adding that the toll was estimated on the bus's 30-person seating capacity. Police and armed police have rushed to the scene and closed the highway for investigation. Several buildings near the blast site were damaged and at least seven local villagers were slightly injured from the explosion, Huang said. Xinhua said the blast was heard at least two kilometers (1.2 miles) away. No survivors were found on the vehicle which was "completely destroyed," Huang said. In January a bomb exploded on a bus in northwestern Xinjiang region, killing 11 people and injuring seven. It was blamed on a disgruntled worker who held a grudge against his former employer, a coal mining company near the scene of the explosion. |
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