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.
