Revenge Said to Be Motive for Explosion
An unemployed man who bore grudges against his neighbors deliberately set off a massive explosion in northern China last month that killed at least 69 people, the official New China News Agency said.
Police initially blamed the July 16 blast in the village of Mafang, in Shaanxi province, on the owner of the explosives.
But the New China News Agency said a different man, Ma Hongqing, was responsible. It described Ma, 51, as heavily in debt and said he had quarreled with the explosives’ owner, Ma Shiping, as well as others.
The agency said Ma Hongqing threw a lighted detonator into an explosives storehouse. Ma Hongqing and Ma Shiping have been arrested.
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