Police name suspect in airport blast
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THE man suspected of setting off an explosive device at Pudong International Airport on Sunday was named by police yesterday as 29-year-old Zhou Xingbai who had amassed huge debts due to online gambling
Zhou, from southwest China’s Guizhou Province, relied on loans from friends, having lost his life savings, police said.
They quoted a conversation on WeChat from early Sunday morning that said: “I owe money to a lot of people” and “am about to do an extremely crazy thing. It is for sure I will lose my life for that.”
Police said Zhou had been working for an electronics company in Kunshan, a city in east China’s Jiangsu Province, since 2014.
On Sunday morning, he took a bus from Kunshan to Shanghai’s Qingpu District, where he transferred to a bus to the airport, they said.
At 2:26pm there was an explosion in a check-in Area C in the airport’s T2 building. The device that blew up was a beer bottle filled with explosive material, police said.
They said fireworks residue had been found in Zhou’s rented home in Kunshan and that further investigations were ongoing.
Before moving to Kunshan, police said, Zhou had been earning his living as a migrant worker in south China’s Guangdong Province since he graduated from senior high school in 2006.
Zhou, who slashed his neck with a dagger after the blast, is still in the intensive care unit at Pudong New Area People’s Hospital.
Three passengers who were injured by flying glass when the device went off were discharged from hospital later on Sunday after treatment.
A fourth passenger hurt in the incident had been allowed home after treatment at the airport’s clinic.
Normal service at the check-in counters in Area C had resumed yesterday morning. The area had been sealed off after the explosion.
Five of the 10 entrances to the terminal’s departure floor are closed to allow stricter security checks with all luggage having to be manually inspected before entry. There were security guards at each open entrance yesterday with handheld devices being used to screen luggage.
“I’m fine with such security inspections, as it would be safer for us,” a passenger surnamed Ruan said. “But the airport should make sure each entrance is stationed with enough security guards to cut people’s waiting time.”
However, there were no problems yesterday as security inspections ran smoothly with very few delays.
There were no additional security checks for passengers entering the terminal building from the Maglev or Metro Line 2 as their luggage would already have been screened.
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