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Explosion in Beijing airport as man appears to detonate wheelchair
A man in a wheelchair is thought to have set off an explosion at Beijing's international airport.
Photo: @mild_luna/weibo.com
By Harriet Alexander
12:59PM BST 20 Jul 2013
The man was pictured on social media waving his arms in the air, seemingly in protest. Onlookers said he was chanting before his wheelchair exploded.
Police were immediately on the scene, amid clouds of dust and debris, but it was not clear whether the man had survived.
CCTV News, the English news channel for China Central Television, said that a man named Jio Zhongxing from Shandong province was responsible for the blast.
Shandong is in the north east of China, on the coast, and is one of the most populous and affluent provinces – home to manufacturing and mineral mining.
It is not seen as a centre for political unrest.
The explosion happened at 6.30pm in Terminal 3 of the airport. There did not immediately appear to be any other people injured in the incident.
Beijing's airport is 20 miles out of the centre. Since 2012 it is the second busiest airport in the world, in terms of passenger traffic – only beaten by Atlanta airport.
Terminal 3 was built in 2008 in time for the Olympic Games. By area, it is the fifth largest building in the world, handling 19,200 pieces of luggage per hour.
Last year 82 million people passed through the airport's three terminals
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Ranting man in wheelchair 'blows himself up' in arrivals hall at Beijing Airport
Reports of explosion in Terminal 3 at busy airport in Chinese capital
Pictures posted online show man in wheelchair brandishing an object
Believed to be a packet of gunpowder used to make firecrackers
Another photo shows a wheelchair on its side in smoke-filled terminal
State media says man was hospitalised and nobody else injured
PUBLISHED: 12:01 GMT, 20 July 2013 | UPDATED: 16:26 GMT, 20 July 2013
A man in a wheelchair set off a home-made bomb in the arrivals hall at Beijing Airport today.The man was initially suspected to 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. A photograph emerged online in the wake of the explosion showing a man in a wheelchair brandishing something in the air, along with another showing an empty wheelchair on its side in the smoke-filled arrivals hall.
Explosion: Photographs emerged online in the wake of the blast of a man in a wheelchair waving his arms in the air at Beijing Airport
Panic: Clouds of smoke filled the arrivals hall today after the man set off a home-made bomb in the busy airport
The picture shows a huddled group of people crouching around someone on the floor next to the over-turned wheelchair.
The man is thought to have detonated a package of gunpowder used to make firecrackers.
Several other pictures that cropped up on Weibo - the Chinese equivalent of Twitter - showed smoke filling the air above the crowds making their way through the terminal in the capital.
Hospitalised: This picture released by China's Xinhua agency shows police and paramedics attending to the man at Terminal 3
The South China Morning Post said online reports suggested the unidentified man in the wheelchair had died in the explosion. But state-run China Central Television has said the man survived the blast and was taken to hospital after detonating the bomb. It said there were no other injuries, that no flights had been affected, and that order had been restored at the airport.
Reached over the phone, the airport's news office said it was not aware of the explosion, and airport police declined to answer questions.
Blast: Smoke could be seen billowing over the heads of crowds making their way through the terminal today
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Beijing 'Bomber' Was Protesting Against Police
A man who detonated a homemade bomb at an airport was protesting against police who he claims beat him and left him paralysed.
4:15pm, Saturday 20 July 2013 Mark Stone
China Correspondent
Details are quickly emerging about the man behind a small explosion at Beijing's International Airport.
His name is Ji Zhongxing. He was born in 1979 and he is from Shandong Province.
He appears to be one of a large number of people in China known as 'petitioners'.
Each has an individual social grievance. Some complain that the local government in their province has stolen their land - a so-called 'land-grab', others will try to expose malpractice at their local hospital or factory.
At the heart of each of their stories will be one thing: corruption.
We often get petitioners at the Sky News bureau in Beijing. They knock on our door armed with documents which they hope will prove their claim.
They travel from their provinces to the Chinese capital in the hope that the central government might listen to them. They are almost always disappointed.
Ji Zhongxing's story - if his online blog is accurate - is tragic.
The blog, complete with graphic photographs, emerged through China's equivalent of twitter, Weibo.
Eyewitnesses said a homemade bomb was detonated
In it, Ji says he was beaten up by the Chinese police in 2005. He says the beating was so severe, it paralysed him from the waist down.
He explains that he used to run a bike taxi service in his local town. He was not registered, which is how he ended up in trouble with the police.
It's not clear how Ji travelled to the airport in Beijing. But, for his unusually extreme form of 'petitioning', he chose a place which gave him significant publicity.
Beijing's Terminal 3 is the largest of the airport's terminals and is where all the international flights arrive.
His explosive device was not very powerful and appears to have been detonated just outside the doors where arriving passengers emerge.
Crowds were nearby, waiting for people to arrive, but not in his immediate vicinity.
Perhaps then he was not intending to injure anyone but himself - he wanted to draw attention to corruption.
His moment was photographed multiple times in seconds. Locals posted on Weibo.
However the scene was cleared up within half an hour. Cleaners were drafted in to remove burns from the walls and marks from the floor. Efficient? Yes. But probably an attempt to restore order fast and remove any sense that someone has questioned authority.
There are already suggestions that the government censors are busy deleting Weibo posts related to the incident.
Any foreigners arriving at the airport who had wanted to post their pictures of the incident on Twitter or Facebook would have struggled. Both are banned and blocked in China.
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Beijing Airport Explosion: Bomb Detonated by Man in Wheelchair
by Kai on Tuesday, July 23, 2013
From NetEase: Disabled Petitioner Sets Off Homemade Bomb in Capital Airport, Possibly in Appeal for Justice
[His] left hand requires amputation; Because of experiencing “unfair treatment” while working in Guangdong, [he] has been petitioning for redress for years; Police report that other than this man, no one else was injured.
Beijing News – Yesterday at 18:24, outside Beijing Capital Airport T3 Terminal Exit B, a disabled Chinese man detonated a homemade explosive device, causing injury to himself, with no other casualties at the scene, nor were the airport’s flight arrivals and departures affected.
As it is understood, following preliminary verification by police authorities, the man had felt he had suffered unjust treatment and thus has been petitioning for years. Smoke from the explosion enveloped the exit/gate
The scene of the incident was the second floor of the Beijing Capital Airport T3 Terminal, 10 meters outside the international arrivals exit. At 7:40 last night, the scene of the incident had already been unsealed. Firefighters and security personnel had dispersed, while cleaning staff were removing the remnants of the explosive from the walls by the security checkpoint, order having already been restored in the airport.
“[There was] a person holding a bomb, and [it] exploded in front of me.” Netizen witness “mild_luna” posted a photo of the accident on her microblog, claiming that yesterday at 18:24, at the arrival exit B, a man in a wheelchair “holding a bomb at the [arrival] exit, had shouted for a long time without anyone paying any attention to him, and only until [he] unwrapped the white plastic around the bomb and surrounding people felt that something was amiss did security rush over, but before many words were exchanged, the bomb exploded”.
“It sounded like the explosion of a lot of firecrackers bundled together” Witness Mr. Chen said he was only 25 meters away from exit B at the time, and after the loud noise, yellow smoke enshrouded exit B, with him and other people at the scene quickly running away.
Witness Mr. Jin saw, after the explosion, that the man had been separated from [fallen off, blown off] his wheelchair, with blood at the scene. About three minutes later, police arrived, the man was carried onto a stretcher, “still conscious, his head constantly moving on the stretcher, and it seemed like [he] was not badly hurt”.
Injured received medical care accompanied by police
After the incident, the man who set off the homemade explosive device was sent to Jishuitan Hospital for medical care. In the hospital’s ER, the man lied in bed alone, without any family member present. He was conscious, [and] surrounded by three to four police officers, who chatted with the man from time to time.
Doctors said the man was sent to the hospital yesterday at 19:53, “judging by his physical [injuries], only the left hand was badly mutilated”, and after preliminary examination, the injury to his left hand was determined to be serious, needs to be amputated, but otherwise [the man faces] no life threatening danger.
Bomber had petitioned for many years
Information from Beijing Capital International Airport claims that after the incident, the airport activated its contingency plan for airport facilities being threatened by explosives, various emergency units were dispatched to the scene, the scene was cordoned off, that the smoke has been dissipated, and order was maintained. The airport had already opened another path for inbound passengers.
As it is understood, through confirmation by the Public Security Bureau, the man’s name is Ji Zhongxin, born 1979, from Heze, Shandong, and had previously worked in Guangdong where he felt he suffered unfair treatment and has petitioned [authorities for redress] for years. Beijing Police issued information that during the incident, the man was injured detonating the self-made explosive device, and is currently receiving medical treatment, without having hurt any of the surrounding people. Public security organs are currently investigating [the incident]. Review Man distributing leaflets stopped, yells “I have a bomb”
“The man shouted repeatedly, ‘Get away, I have a bomb.’” An employee of a store nearby the Beijing Capital International Airport T3 exit B claimed that about an hour before the incident, she saw a man in a wheelchair appear in the terminal hall. During this time, the man pulled out leaflets from a bag, [and he] attempted to distribute [the leaflets] to inbound passengers, but was stopped by security personnel near the exit gate. Subsequently, the man held a bottle of white-colored bottle-shaped object and screamed at the exit gate, “I have something to say, I have a bomb, stay away”, but no one at the scene had paid him any attention.
The shop worker says when the man detonated the bomb, there were very few passengers at the exit gate, and the man also repeatedly reminded people passing by to keep a distance from him. A member of the cleaning staff at the scene confirmed having heard a man yelling “stay away” before the incident. Follow up Petitioner claims he was paralyzed from beatings by Dongguan security personnel Guangdong Dongguan Houjie Public Security Sub-Bureau says it will issue a combined response to this matter [allegation]
Yesterday, after the name of the man who detonated a homemade exposive at Beijing Capital International Airport was exposed, this reporter uncovered online “Ji Zhongxing’s blog” as well as relevant websites.
“My name is Ji Zhongxing, male, Han ethnicity, born on 1979 December 1, reside in Shandong province, Heze city, Juancheng county, Fuchun town, Dajizhuang Village, with an elementary school education.” Ji claimed in a 2006 blog post, that on 2005 June 28th, in Dongguan, Guangdong, he was riding a motorcycle with passenger Gong Tao to Xintang, Houjie, and encountered a police patrol checking vehicles on the way. He was chased and beaten with steel pipes by law enforcement officers, causing spinal fractures resulting in complete paralysis, “completely losing the ability to work in the future.” The blog [post] shows that Ji Zhongxing’s fellow villager had referred him to lawyers Xue Zhaohui and Chen Zhaoyuan from Guangdong Nantianxing Law Firm, and said the two lawyers were willing to provide them with legal assistance. Soon after this blog post was exposed by netizens, it was promptly deleted.
Yesterday, Lawyer Chen said that he partially understood Ji’s case, but did not get involved or provide representation in this case. “Lawyers have confirmed Ji’s blog content.” Last night, the Southern Metropolis Dailymicroblog published the “administrative compensation application” drafted by lawyers Xue Zhaohui and Chen Zhaoyuan, demanding that the Houjie Dongguan Municipal Public Security Bureau pay Ji Zhongxing 330,000 yuan in compensation as well as investigate the criminal liability of the relevant personnel involved.
Dongguan Public Security Bureau Houjiu Sub-Bureau deputy director Yin Hongfang said they have already learned of Ji’s incident of detonating a bomb at Beijing Capital Airport, but as for what Ji experienced that is circulating online, they will provide a combined response in the near future, as “it’s not convenient to talk [about the matter] over the phone”.
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Beijing airport bomber gets 6 years
Xinhua, October 15, 2013
Ji Zhongxing is sentenced to six year in prison this morning.[Xinhua]
Ji Zhongxing, who was charged with setting off explosives at the Beijing Capital International Airport in July, was sentenced to six years in jail on Tuesday, according to a court ruling.
Ji, a 33-year-old wheelchair-bound man, was jailed for causing an explosion in a public place, according to a ruling by the Chaoyang District People's Court in Beijing.
Ji, a native of east China's Shandong Province, set off a homemade explosive device outside the airport's Terminal 3 arrivals exit on July 20, severely injuring himself. A police officer at the scene suffered minor injuries in the explosion.
According the court, Ji handed out leaflets that read "paying off old scores" at an arrival exit for international tourists, held the explosive device high for passersby to see, and ignited it when a police officer tried to stop him.
The explosion caused chaos at the scene and forced the closure of the arrivals exit and evacuation of passengers.
Ji, who appeared on a stretcher in the courtroom, has been in custody since July 21.
He did not appeal in court, and said he needed to consider the appeals process further.
Ji once worked in the southern province of Guangdong. For ten years, he has been petitioning about alleged unjust treatment that resulted in his paralysis, according to a police investigation.
Ji received a minor sentence because he warned people to stay away from him at the scene of the blast and confessed his crimes in the court, according to the ruling.
According to the country's criminal law, anyone who causes an explosion or uses other means to endanger public security without causing serious consequences shall be sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment of no less than three years but no more than ten years.
