Police scramble to find bus explosion clues in W. China

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-07-26 16:21

Before the blast, the couple were heading for Wang's home to celebrate the fifth birthday of her daughter from a previous marriage.

To nab the culprits quickly on the day of the blasts, some 300 police officers fanned out all along stops of the entire No. 54 service route. This included 100 officers positioned at the bus depot at Minshan and the Panjiawan bus stop, trying to find passengers who rode on the two ill-fated buses.

In addition, traffic police also tightened inspection over taxis as of Friday, alongside improved checks at the border and over transient people.

In a related development, police in Yangzhou, a scenic city in the eastern Jiangsu Province, on Thursday detained a man surnamed Wang. He was under suspicion of concocting and deliberately causing panic among the society by using the bus explosions in Kunming to spreading fake information.

The 23-year-old, a native of Jingshan in the central Hubei Province, had migrated to Yangzhou. He stayed with his parents peddling vegetables in the city upon completion of his senior high school education, according to Yangzhou City Security Bureau.

Shortly after the blasts in Kunming on Monday, Wang read about it and then posted a line under the name of "hostile forces" on an unidentified website. He claimed to be responsible for the two explosions and threatened to carry out more in future.

Wang confessed during a police interrogation that he made the acts with the purposes of getting more, stronger attention and worship from netizens.

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