13 April 2008
Tibetan monks held over 'bomb plot'
(BBC) China has arrested nine Tibetan Buddhist monks who have been accused of a bomb attack, according to the reports by Xinhua. Chinese officials said the monks' homemade bomb exploded in a government building in eastern Tibet on 23 March. Xinhua did not explain why the alleged bomb incident was not reported at the time. Xinhua said the monks were from Tongxia monastery and had confessed to planting the explosive in Gyanbe township.