Bomb Attacks in 17 Locations Rock Southern Chinese City

Bomb Attacks in 17 Locations Rock Southern Chinese City
Investigators check the site of a series of blasts at a damaged building in Liucheng county in Liuzhou in south China's Guangxi province on Sept. 30, 2015. STR/AFP/Getty Images
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Update: At about 8:00 a.m. on Oct. 1, a loud explosion went off at residential apartment in Liuzhou City near Liucheng County, according to Chinese web portal Sina.

A series of explosions ripped through a city in a southern Chinese province in the late afternoon of Sept. 30, killing at least 7 and injuring 51, according to Chinese state media.

The explosions occurred in at least 17 locations in Guangxi’s Liuzhou, including at a government office, a shopping mall, a prison, and a hospital, the state mouthpiece Xinhua reported. There was at least one explosion at a bridge. All the explosions took place in Liuzhou City, a large urban and suburban area of 3.7 million people, which includes multiple townships and counties; most of the blasts took place in the county of Liucheng, which is part of the larger Liuzhou urban area. 

A government building in Liucheng County after a series of explosions tore through the city in the southern Chinese province of Guangxi on Sept. 30, 2015. (Screen shot via Weibo.com)
A government building in Liucheng County after a series of explosions tore through the city in the southern Chinese province of Guangxi on Sept. 30, 2015. Screen shot via Weibo.com
Larry Ong
Larry Ong
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Larry Ong is a New York-based journalist with Epoch Times. He writes about China and Hong Kong. He is also a graduate of the National University of Singapore, where he read history.
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