Gambling debts likely motive for Shanghai airport bombing
Updated: 2016-06-13 21:39
(Xinhua)
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A bomb disposal expert checks a luggage near the site of a blast at a terminal in Shanghai's Pudong International Airport, China, June 12, 2016.[Photo/Agencies] |
Zhou Xingbai, 29, from Tongren city in Southwest China's Guizhou province, became a migrant worker in 2006 when he finished middle school, police said.
He has allegedly been addicted to online gambling since 2014, squandering his savings and living in heavy debt.
Zhou wrote on his WeChat account that he owed many people money, and was going to do something "very crazy," which would definitely cost his life.
He allegedly left Kunshan of East China's Jiangsu province at 7:34 am Sunday by coach. At Shanghai Pudong International Airport, he allegedly threw a homemade explosive device in beer bottle at a check-in counter in Terminal 2 at 2:26 pm.
Police found explosive used to make firecrackers in Zhou's house.
Four passengers, including a Philippine national, were injured by flying glass, and a few flights were affected. Zhou cut his own throat with a knife at the airport, but was taken to hospital for medical treatment.
The case is under further investigation.
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