XUZHOU, China—The man who set off a self-made explosive device outside a Chinese kindergarten killing eight people and injuring 65 others on Thursday had a neurological disorder and had scrawled words for death on the walls of his home, officials said on Friday.
The 22-year-old man, surnamed Xu, was among those killed in the blast near the entrance to the kindergarten in Xuzhou, a city in the coastal province of Jiangsu, police said in a briefing shown on state television.
The official Xinhua news agency said police were considering the act a “criminal offence”.
An investigator walks at the scene of an explosion inside a kindergarten in Fengxian County of Xuzhou in Jiangsu Province, China June 16, 2017. Reuters/Aly Song
