explosion at Beijing Airport

WhiteBear

Man on the wheelchair suspected to have the explosives.

http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,114871,14309418,Glosny_wybuch_na_lotnisku_w_Pekinie__Terminal_w_klebach.html#BoxWiadTxt

sorry at this time only in Polish language

Terminal 3 is evacuated.

Drill or real?

jay_dee

'Huge explosion' rocks Beijing airport in China, witness says
By Ed Flanagan and Ian Johnston, NBC News

A “huge explosion” rocked Beijing airport in China on Saturday, prompting police to order people to leave one terminal, a witness said.
Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt, of the International Crisis Group think tank, was at the airport when the blast happened at about 6:30 p.m. local time (6:30 a.m. ET).
“Huge explosion followed by panic, smoke and dust at Terminal 3,” she said on Twitter.
“Lots of excitement, police v angry, shouted crowds back and told everyone to leave,” she added.
She posted a photograph of the scene, showing the air clouded with dust after the blast:
Explosion epicentre, can't work out what it is http://t.co/4Tifv5HjdO
— S. Kleine-Ahlbrandt (@ska_kongshan) July 20, 2013
The Sina Weibo microblog of state broadcaster China Central Television said a man detonated a package of black gunpowder used to make firecrackers just outside the international arrivals exit.
A photograph posted on China's official Xinhua news agency's English-language website showed medical staff treating someone who was lying on the ground.

WhiteBear

looks like an individual action, not the terrorist act

jay_dee

Does it really matter?

1584austin

WhiteBear Post time: 2013-7-20 20:31
looks like an individual action, not the terrorist act

The terminal filled with smokePhotos posted by CCTV on its microblog showed the area outside the arrivals exit empty and filled with smoke. One photo showed medical staff and police officers hovering over a person, with a wheelchair sitting on its side a few steps away.

A man in a wheelchair has blown himself up in Beijing AirportThe official Xinhua News Agency said a Chinese man in a wheelchair set off the device outside the arrivals exit of Terminal 3.
State-run China Central Television, which also reported that no one else was hurt, identified the man as Ji Zhongxing, born in 1979 and from the eastern province of Shandong.
It was not immediately clear why the man set off the bomb. Police are investigating the incident, Xinhua said

xoce

jay_dee Post time: 2013-7-20 20:18
'Huge explosion' rocks Beijing airport in China, witness says
By Ed Flanagan and Ian Johnston, NBC N ...

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snappysammy

jay_dee Post time: 2013-7-20 20:53
Does it really matter?