Blast near Indian embassy in Beijing, suspected female suicide bomber arrested

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A low-intensity blast was reported near the Indian Embassy in the Chinese capital Beijing on Thursday.

BEIJING: An explosion was reported near the Indian Embassy in the Chinese capital Beijing on Thursday. However, no casualties were reported due to the incident.

The United States Embassy is also located close to the site of the blast.

''It was a low-intensity blast close to the Indian Embassy,'' a source told ANI.


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ANI also posted a video of the blast in Beijing which shows several people running for their lives soon after the explosion.

A thick layer of smoke can be seen rising up in the air after the blast, in the video.




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Though there are no reports of fatalities or injury at the moment, the visuals of the incident shared by some people on social media show cops and possibly a body covered by a blanket, lying on the ground.

The source further said that the Chinese authorities are investigating the matter.

There was no harm to Indian Embassy or any of its staff, the source said.

The nature of the blast is still not clear.

According to Radio Free Asia online news, a man attempted to throw a homemade bomb into the gated compound of the embassy, but the device went off earlier than planned.

The blast caused panic and injured a number of people, the news portal said.

Amid reports of the blast, China’s state-run Global Times cited witnesses claiming that a woman sprayed gasoline on herself in a suspected self-immolation attempt.

Police took her away, but it is not yet clear if the incident is related to the suspected explosion, according to the Global Times.

The Beijing Police is also said to be examining a vehicle parked outside the US Embassy in connection with the blast, according to Reuters.

However, there has been no official word from neither the Chinese nor the American officials regarding the blast.

This is possibly the first blast in China since August 2015.

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it happened on US embassy not bharati..

Bomb detonated outside US embassy in Beijing, China


US official says only bomber was injured in blast that sent smoke billowing around the compound in north-east of city

Lily Kuo in Beijing

Thu 26 Jul 2018 07.56 BSTFirst published on Thu 26 Jul 2018 07.22 BST




A Chinese police officer blocks the cameras near the US embassy in Beijing after a bomb was detonated that injured only the assailant. Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters
A man detonated a bomb outside the US embassy in Beijing, according to the US state department, injuring himself but no other people.

The explosion occurred at the southeast corner of the embassy compound, a heavily fortified structure in northeast Beijing, at around 1pm local time.

“According to the embassy’s regional security officer, there was one individual who detonated a bomb. Other than the bomber, no other people were injured and there was no damage to embassy property. The local police responded,” a US embassy spokesperson told the Guardian.

Chinese police said the bomber was a 26-year-old man who hurt himself while setting off a small, homemade explosive, according to the Associated Press.

Police identified him only by his surname Jiang and said he was from the city of Tongliao, in China’s Inner Mongolia.

Media reports described a “firecracker-like explosive” and said the bomber had injured his hand.

Earlier on Thursday, videos and photos posted on social media showed smoke filling an intersection as groups of pedestrians gathered and police surrounded the area, home to several embassies. Witnesses reported hearing the blast.

A witness who asked only to give his surname, Li, said he was cleaning the road outside the Japanese embassy, about 1km away, at the time of the incident. “I heard the sound of a big explosion and then women screaming,” he said.

News of the blast spread quickly on Chinese social media, garnering nearly a million views before search terms related to the blast were blocked.

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Something just exploded at the US Embassy in Beijing, China just a few min ago. Smoke everywhere....@CNN @CNBC @CNBCnow@nytimes pic.twitter.com/O8wf3L2Q0V

July 26, 2018
The attempted bombing comes as China and the US are locked in an ongoing trade dispute. Within a few hours after the blast, police were ushering journalists away from the scene. Traffic was allowed to flow again, and visa applicants were lining up outside the embassy.

Earlier, the state-run Global Times said a woman spraying gasoline on herself had been taken away from outside the US embassy on Thursday morning, in what appeared to be a separate incident. A Chinese police car near the embassy appeared to have been damaged, according to Reuters.

 

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Indian Embassy might not have been the target

 

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Goood yes but it is a calk to us india coalation get out of south china sea