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Alice Yan

A man hurled a bottle containing home-made explosives inside Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport on Sunday afternoon, injuring four people before ­attempting to kill himself, ­authorities said.
The man threw the beer bottle containing the explosives towards a check-in counter in Terminal 2 at about 2.20pm, the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau said.
The man then took a knife from his backpack, cut his neck and fell to the ground, police said.
He is in a critical condition in hospital.
Four passengers were injured in the incident, said a statement on the Shanghai government’s ­official microblog.
Three injured in Shanghai airport terminal explosion
The state-run Xinhua news agency said the injured included a man from the Philippines, as well as a 67-year-old man and a 64-year-old woman – both described as ­Chinese. The nationality of the fourth victim was unclear.
The four were slightly injured by shards of glass and were being treated at Pudong District ­People’s Hospital.
Police sent armed officers to patrol inside the terminal following the blast as the airport raised its security level.

Some people said the explosion sounded like a firecracker.
“Before the explosion, I heard some people repeatedly say ‘please don’t’,” a witness surnamed Xue told the Xinmin Evening News. She said she heard a loud bang and saw smoke rising.
Yao Mengting said on WeChat that she had been near to the ­explosion and fell over twice as she tried to run away.
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“Everyone was running. It was so scary!” she wrote. “I saw someone was seriously hurt in the ­explosion.”
The blasts took place at check-in area C where the Thai Airways and Philippine Airlines service desks are located.

A worker at Thai Airways’ Shanghai office told the South China Morning Post that one of the airline’s flights was postponed and passengers were told to check-in at area E instead. “We are waiting for the arrangement from the airport over whether our passengers and their bags need another security check,” she said.
A few flights were affected ­because the incident disrupted the check-in area but the airport later returned to normal operation, Xinhua said. 
Additional reporting by Reuters, Agence France-Presse
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