[Globe & Mail] More than a dozen explosions killed at least seven people in southern China on Wednesday only an hour before workers went home for a major Chinese holiday. The "massive" blasts came from package bombs sent to 13 public places, including a hospital, local government office, shopping mall, prison, disease control center, vegetable market, and a supermarket.Local police quickly said terrorism was not to blame, calling it a "criminal" matter and saying they had a 33-year-old suspect, with the surname of Wei. But the coordinated attacks, which came just before the start of the National Day holidays, wounded at least 50 and left wide-scale destruction.
Most of the explosions hit Liucheng, a county in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. One also hit nearby Liuzhuo, a historic city frequented by tourists.