{"id":52704,"date":"2016-01-05T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=52704 "},"modified":"2016-01-05T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T20:22:00","slug":"52704-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=52704","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Police Detain Man Over Deadly Ningxia Bus Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Police investigate the scene of a bus fire in Helan county, China, Jan. 5, 2016.<\/span><\/div>
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Authorities in the northern Chinese region of Ningxia are holding a man suspected of setting fire to a bus filled with passengers, killing 17 people and injuring dozens more during morning rush hour on Tuesday, official media reported.<\/span><\/div>
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Police detained suspected arsonist Ma Yongping after the blaze sparked a manhunt in Ningxia’s Helan county, ruling Chinese Communist Party paper the People’s Daily said in a post to its official microblog account.<\/span><\/div>
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The fire started aboard the 301 bus route at around 7:08 a.m. outside a furniture store in Helan county, close to the regional capital of Yinchuan, state news agency Xinhua reported.<\/span><\/div>
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The bus was operated by state-owned Yinchuan Public Transport Co., and was heading for the city’s railway station, it said.<\/span><\/div>
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Photos posted of the blaze online showed the entire bus aflame and engulfed with black smoke.<\/span><\/div>
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Some posts suggested that Ma had started the fire out of anger over back pay owed to him by an employer. However, official media said his motivation was still unknown.<\/span><\/div>
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An employee who answered the phone at the Ningxia Medical University hospital on Tuesday said many of the injured had been transferred to a special burns unit.<\/span><\/div>
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“They’re no longer in the main building here, but they have been sent to the burns unit,” the employee said. “Some went into intensive care, and some are under observation.”<\/span><\/div>
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A Helan resident who asked to remain anonymous said she had seen the fire and smoke rising from the scene along with large numbers of police and emergency vehicles.<\/span><\/div>
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“It’s pretty scary … a lot of people on that bus were just going to work in the morning,” she said. “I wasn’t at the scene, but I saw flames and smoke; I think the police had already got there by that time.”<\/span><\/div>
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She added: “I feel very sad for those poor, unlucky people. It even occurred to me to take the bus to work this morning.”<\/span><\/div>
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“Now I won’t dare to take the bus.”<\/span><\/div>
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Another resident surnamed Li said local people are now waiting anxiously for more information.<\/span><\/div>
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“We are waiting to see what the government is going to say,” she said. “There is always such a delay in getting information, and some people are wondering if their friends and family were killed or injured.”<\/span><\/div>
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“Of course we are all very worried; it could be the friend of a friend, or someone in our family [in the bus].”<\/span><\/div>
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An employee at a business near where the suspected arson attack took place said the entire area had been cordoned off for several hours.<\/span><\/div>
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“We didn’t go to work today; we were in shock,” the employee said. “The incident happened when we were on our way to work but we didn’t see it.”<\/span><\/div>
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“They have cleaned everything up now, and everything has returned to normal.”<\/span><\/div>
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“The cordon has just been lifted.”<\/span><\/div>
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