Bank Bombed in Heavily Tibetan Area of China

By artappraiser on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 1:36am |

By Keith Bradsher, New York Times, May 13, 2011

HONG KONG — At least 39 people were injured, six of them seriously, in a gasoline bomb explosion at a rural bank branch in a heavily Tibetan area of northwest China’s Gansu Province, a person at the local police station said by telephone, but there were no immediate signs that the attack was politically motivated. The bomb was detonated during a bank meeting on the fourth floor of the building in Wuwei City, according to the official Xinhua News Agency...

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By Tania Branigan in Beijing and agencies, Guardian.co.uk, May 13, 2011

The official Xinhua news agency said that 60 were injured, 19 seriously, after an assailant threw the device into a staff meeting at a bank in Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County....

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/world/asia/13blast.html