16. Mar 2009
Bomb blast in Kardze
(AP) There was a bomb blast in an unoccupied newly-built police station in Bogexi town, Kardze (Chin: Ganzi) prefecture in a Tibetan area in Sichuan province. The bomb shattered windows but no one was injured and an investigation was under way, PSB official Liu Xiaojun told Associated Press. The state-run China Daily newspaper blamed the blast on "terrorists" - a term Chinese officials often use to characterise followers of the Dalai Lama. The report provided no other details.