China kindergarten blast was bomb, suspect killed – official

The explosion killed eight people outside the kindergarten.

Police officers peer over a screen placed outside a kindergarten where an explosion killed 8 people and injured dozens a day earlier, in Fengxian, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province on June 16, 2017. Police investigating the explosion say they are treating the incident as a crime and have identified at least one suspect. / AFP PHOTO / GREG BAKER

Chinese police said Friday the explosion that killed eight people outside a kindergarten was caused by a makeshift bomb and the bomber died in the blast.

The public security ministry said in a statement that the suspect was a 22-year-old man with health problems who rented a room near the kindergarten in the eastern town of Fengxian, where Thursday’s blast occurred.

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