Man detonates homemade bomb in Beijing airport

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324263404578617511567203222.html

Man Detonates Bomb in Beijing Airport Terminal
Only the Bomber Is Injured in Incident in Terminal, Chinese Media and Witnesses Say

BEIJING—A Chinese man in a wheelchair detonated an improvised explosive device in Beijing's international airport on Saturday, injuring himself and filling part of the building with smoke and dust, but without causing other casualties, according to state media and witnesses.

The state-run Xinhua news agency reported on its website that the man detonated the device at 6:24 pm local time in Terminal 3 of Beijing International Airport. Xinhua published a photograph of medical staff treating the injured man at the airport. It said nobody else was injured.

A posting on the official Weibo account of state-run China Central Television identified the man as Ji Zhongxing, saying he was born in 1979 and was from China's eastern province of Shandong.

Several witnesses posted photographs on China's popular Twitter-like Sina Weibo microblogging platform that appeared to show the man seated in a wheelchair, shouting and holding a white object over his head shortly before the blast.

Other witnesses' pictures on Weibo showed the empty wheelchair lying on its side after the blast as a cloud of white dust and smoke spread through the terminal building and police and bystanders ran in different directions.

Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt, northeast Asia director for the International Crisis Group, said she heard but didn't see the blast as she passed through the terminal and then saw the cloud of dust and smoke filling the area.

"It was a huge boom. The explosion itself was deafening," she said. "Then there was immediately a lot of dust and smoke. The police were clearing everyone away. They were clearly very panicked."

 

[HereIsTheNews]

Beijing airport bomber gets 6 years

Xinhua, October 15, 2013

Ji Zhongxing is sentenced to six year in prison this morning.[Xinhua]

Ji Zhongxing, a wheelchair-bound man setting off explosives at Beijing airport in July, is on trial at the Beijing Chaoyang District People's Court in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 15, 2013.[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.

 

[SadPlumpGirl]

Smart Ah Tiong. 6 years of free food and nursing care!

 

[Fugitive]

Smart Ah Tiong. 6 years of free food and nursing care!

Idiotic Tiong don't know how to run road like me.