Plotters for Hotel Blast in NE China City Captured

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Plotters for Hotel Blast in NE China City Captured

Police have captured two suspects for the bomb blast that occurred in a hotel in Qiqihar city in China's northernmost Heilongjiang province on Tuesday evening, local police sources said Saturday.

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Police have captured two suspects for the bomb blast that occurred in a hotel in Qiqihar city in China's northernmost Heilongjiang province on Tuesday evening, local police sources said Saturday.

Twenty one-year-old man Gu Shukun and 29-year-old He Jingxin were found to be plotters, who had put 11 explosive devices in thelocally based Salaboer Hotel in the early morning of Sept. 1.

Police removed ten explosives one by one from Sept. 1 to Sept. 2. However, the last device exploded while being defused, injuringpolice officers Yu Shangqing and Li Yingxiang, who are currently being treated in a local hospital.

Gu, a former Salaboer attendant, was dismissed on Aug. 1 because of disputes with his boss concerning job promotion and salary.

After colluding with He Jingxing, Gu's former workmate in a factory, Gu decided to take a revenge on his Salaboer boss by laying explosives in the hotel and blackmailing the boss for a ransom of 600,000 yuan (about 72,600 US dollars).

The two suspects bought fireworks, paper, battery and alarming clocks to make explosive devices themselves and then installed 11 of their 13 devices at different locations in the hotel.

No civilian casualties have so far been reported from the blast,according to police sources.

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