The explosion that killed a local official and one other in the Yi Autonomous County of Ebian in southwest China's Sichuan Province Wednesday has been found to be a suicide bombing, said the local police.

Ge Junming, vice chairman of the county committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of Ebian and chairman and general manager of a private corporation named Mingda, was killed in the explosion.

"Zhang Mingchun, the other killed in the bombing, is the suspected murderer," said Huang Ruojian, director of the Leshan municipal public security bureau.

According to Huang, disputes over compensation for land appropriation may be the reason for the suicide bombing.

The Mingda corporation appropriated the land of a sand quarry owned by Zhang Mingchun, a villager of Caoping village in Ebian county, when it constructed a road to a power station.

As Zhang was not satisfied with the compensation offered by the Mingda corporation for his occupied land, he took a package of 2-kg homemade nitroamine explosives and a detonator, came to Ge's office in Mingda corporation and ignited the explosives, said Huang.

Both Ge and Zhang were killed on the spot and Ge Xiuping, an accountant of the corporation was injured.

Further investigation into the explosion is underway.

Source: Xinhua