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Rush-Hour Blasts Kill at Least Two In South China
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Armed police officers have also locked down large parts of Xinjiang and Tibetan areas, following widespread protests in March against Chinese rule.
Li said anti-terrorism measures should be beefed up in other areas of China. "Terrorists always like to turn to regions or cities where the preventive measures are weak," he said.
A reporter for a local newspaper in Yunnan, the Life Daily News, interviewed relatives of some of those injured by the blast. She said the relatives of two women who were sitting in the back of the first bus described what they saw.
The bus had just pulled into the Panjiawan bus stop in the heart of downtown Kunming, the people said. There were 11 people, including the driver, on board. The riders saw a young man, about 20 years old, leave his seat four rows behind the driver and get off the bus. He left behind a black bag. Seconds later, the bus exploded.
A Kunming police officer said that if the witness account was correct, then the suspect's image was probably captured by one of several cameras along West Renmin Road.
One woman, identified by police as Wang Dezhi, was killed and her fiance, who was sitting across the aisle from her, had his left arm injured, the witnesses said. The relatives of a 74-year-old man said he was just paying to board the bus when the explosion occurred. He was lacerated by flying glass and was admitted to the local hospital.
Police reported that in addition to the two confirmed dead, one person was severely injured and the others had relatively minor injuries.
During the Tuesday morning rush hour, there were many fewer passengers on the route followed by the buses attacked Monday. But one woman, who said she rode the bus every day, said she was not afraid to ride it this morning. "Yesterday was a rare incident," she said.
Researchers Liu Songjie, Liu Liu and Zhang Jie contributed to this report.
