Police in northwest China's Xinjiang region shot dead a man armed with dynamite who hijacked a long-distance bus heading for the regional capital Urumqi, state media reported on Thursday. Xinjiang = distant muslim region
The man boarded the bus as it refuelled at a filling station in a suburb of Yining city on Wednesday afternoon and threatened to blow it up, Xinhua news agency said. Acting on a tip-off, police rushed to the scene and urged him to give up, but he ignited the dynamite so they shot him.
A tip-off? You mean brick-shitting bus passengers called the cops on their mobile phones?
The explosives started a fire on the bus but no one was seriously hurt.
No earth-shattering kaboom? Probably cheap knockoff explosives...typical for China.
Xinhua said initial investigations pointed to a