(Reproduced
from the Mumbai Mirror June 30, 2008 pg 18 )
Man blows up govt office
after his building is razed
BEIJING: A man,
angered over the demolition of his property, on
Wednesday drove a vehicle with gas cylinders and blew
up a government office in a central province in
China, local authorities said.
The man surnamed Tian set the gas
cylinders alight and crashed into the sub-district
office at Zhangjiajie city in Hunan province,
injuring 12 people, five of them seriously, police
said. The injured were hospitalised. Tian was quickly
overpowered, staterun Xinhua news agency said.
Initial probe showed he had
deliberately caused the blast as revenge against the
local government for demolishing an illegal building
owned by him, it said.
A somewhat similar incident had
taken place on Tuesday when a man stabbed six police
officials to death in Shanghai in a revenge attack
for having been interrogated by police over bicycle
theft last year. Five policemen died on Tuesday and
another succumbed to injuries on Wednesday.
The death of a teenage girl in
suspicious circumstances had led to riots involving
thousands of people in Guizhou province in southwest
China on Saturday. PTI
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The girl (left)
and the crowds (right) that poured out
onto the roads protest against the probe
into her death
Schoolgirls
death sparks riot in China
Rioters torched buildings and
cars angry over a probe into 15-year-olds death
BEIJING: Rioters in
southwestern China torched government buildings and
cars after anger over a probe into a schoolgirl's
death exploded into violent protests, locals and
state press said Sunday.
The riots occurred Saturday in
Guizhou province when protesters ransacked three
government and police buildings after the girl's
uncle died from an alleged beating by police trying
to stop him from protesting against the handling of
the case, locals and Internet postings said.
The official Xinhua news agency
said the riots had erupted due to dissatisfaction
over the investigation into the girl's death, but
added no further details. Pictures posted on Internet
blogs showed several thousand people gathered in
front of the Wengan county police station, its
windows shattered and the building smouldering.
The Hong Kong-based
Information Centre for Human Rights and
Democracy said that over 10,000 people took
to the streets in the protests, with up to
150 people injured in clashes with police.
Police have arrested nearly 200 rioters and
Sunday were seeking to round up others caught
on videotape ransacking the government
buildings, th centre said.
Over 1,500 paramilitary and riot
police have been dispatch to the county, it added.
Locals contacted by AFP by phone
said protesters took to the streets after the
deceased girl's uncle was pronounced dead in a local
hospital on Saturday afternoon.
The uncle had protested against the
conclusion of the police investigation that had
determined the 15-year-old girl committed suicide.
He had been badly beaten as he
sought justice after the death of his niece, locals
said.
Internet postings said the girl had
been raped and then killed nine days ago and that the
police were trying to cover up the alleged murder and
protect the suspect, who was identified as the son of
the vice head of Wengan county. Officials at the
county government and police station did not answer
telephone calls Sunday. AFP
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