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The vehicle used in the attack was a Beijing BJ40 bought from a local dealership. The BJ40 is a large off-road vehicle weighing about 2 tonnes and worth around CNY¥ 200,000 (US$31,000). Fan purchased the car with a loan a week before the attack and picked it up on 10 November, the day before the attack. [26]
The attack left 33 civilians and 4 perpetrators dead with more than 140 others injured. [99] 30 April 2014: Ürümqi, Xinjiang: April 2014 Ürümqi attack: A knife attack and bombing occurred in the Chinese city of Ürümqi, the capital of China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The attack left three people dead and seventy-nine others injured.
Zhou Enlai announces the success of China's atomic bomb test in 1964. A celebration of Chinese nuclear missile tests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1966. Mao Zedong referred to nuclear weapons as a paper tiger which, although they would not determine the outcome of a war, could still be used by great powers to scare and coerce.
Kindergarten attack shines light on China’s ‘lone wolf’ stabbings problem. 06:52, Alisha Rahaman Sarkar. A knife attack at a kindergarten in China today has shone a spotlight on the ...
On 30 September 2024, the eve of China's National Day, a mass stabbing incident occurred at a Walmart supermarket in the Songjiang District of Shanghai. At 21:46, a man armed with two knifes entered the supermarket and quickly stabbed people before being subdued. [4]
A bombing took place on 22 March 2021 in the city of Guangzhou, capital of the province of Guangdong, China, [1] when a man detonated a bomb killing five people, including himself, and injuring five others. [2]
On 16 July 2001, at 3:25 a.m., Ma Hongqing (Chinese: 马宏清; 19 September 1950 – 23 September 2001), an illegal explosives manufacturer from Mafang Village, attempted to steal another manufacturer's 30+ tons of ammonium nitrate explosives but failed to do so, after which he lit a fuse equipped with a detonator and fled the scene.
On 28 October 2013, a car ran over pedestrians and crashed in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, in a terrorist suicide attack. [3] Five people died in the incident; three inside the vehicle and two others nearby.