Via Gurdian UK - Chinese city rocked by three blasts چین کا شہر میں تین بم دھماکوں سے لرز گیا

Explosions at three sites near government buildings in an eastern Chinese city have damaged 10 cars and injured at least five people, state media has reported.

The cause of the near-simultaneous blasts on Thursday in Fuzhou, Jiangxi province, was being investigated, the Xinhua news agency said, but it cited a provincial government source saying a disgruntled farmer was most likely to blame.
The blasts shook the prosecutor's office, a government office and the district food and drug administration, Xinhua said. Most of the windows in the eight-storey prosecutor's office were shattered after the explosion less than 100m away, it added.

One villager, Zhang Weizhang, believed that a discontented local resident was to blame.

"There are plenty of people complaining about the government. They ignore complaints. They've ignored mine," said Zhang, who said he was in a dispute over forestry rights in Fuzhou's Linchuan district. "But nobody ordinary would do something like this. This isn't normal for here."

The Fuzhou government did not respond to calls seeking comment.

Fuzhou's Communist party boss, Gan Liangmiao, told officials in October that they must "firmly establish the idea that stability comes before all else and stability comes higher than anything else", the Fuzhou Daily said at the time.

Jiangxi province is home to many mines, which use explosives, and fireworks manufacturers. In past years, disgruntled Chinese citizens have set off explosions near buildings or on buses.

Such "sudden incidents", as China refers to them, underscore broader government worries about stability in the world's second-largest economy, with a widening gap between rich and poor and growing anger at corruption and over environmental issues.

Earlier this month, a petrol bomb set off by a disgruntled former employee at a rural bank in north-west China's Gansu province wounded 49 people.

In 2001, a string of explosions at workers' dormitories in the northern city of Shijiazhuang killed 108 people.

Chinese farmers have been at the centre of many incidents of unrest and protest, with anger frequently focused on land grabs to make way for infrastructure projects or commercial buildings.

Last year, three people set themselves on fire in a Jiangxi county, not far from Fuzhou, to try to stop officials forcing them out of their homes to make way for a bus station.
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