A disabled migrant worker has told a Beijing court that a homemade bomb he brought to the Beijing Capital International Airport as part of a protest went off by accident.
- Thu
- Oct 3, 2013
- Updated: 2:32am
Beijing airport explosion
A 34-year-old man in a wheelchair, upset over a crippling beating he received years ago from rogue security guards in a southern city, detonated a home-made explosive device outside the international arrival hall at Terminal 3 of the Beijing Capital International Airport on July 20, 2013, receiving serious injuries.
Ji Zhongxing, the man who detonated a home-made bomb at the Beijing airport earlier this month, was arrested on Monday on suspicion of bombing, his lawyer has said.
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"My brother was so miserable with his injustices, and now, we don't know where he is and what he was arrested for," Ji Zhongji, elder brother of bomber Ji Zhongxing, told the Post yesterday.
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