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3 killed, 13 injured in multiple explosions in China

Part of a building had collapsed, reported state-run CCTV and it reported that three people were killed and 13 injured while people of area on social media are claiming that death toll is over 30.

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In 2013 a man set off a series of home-made bombs packed with ball-bearings outside a provincial government headquarters in northern China, killing at least one person and wounding eight.

Later blasts hit the county capital Liuzhou.

Blasts were heard in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Wednesday afternoon.

“Initial investigation showed that explosives could be inside express delivery packages”.

Pictures online showed a half-collapsed building in Dapu township. Witnesses also saw damaged vehicles on the road, Xinhua said. State-run Xinhua news agency said the multiple explosions were caused by 15 letter bombs. At least 29 people were killed in a knife attack by Uighurs from western Xinjiang on a railway station in southwestern Kunming past year, while explosions struck county government offices in Jiangxi in 2011, set off by an aggrieved farmer who had lost his land.

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Local authorities had activated their emergency response mechanism and that the local safety administration had sent out an emergency alert, saying the explosions were triggered by parcel bombs and calling on the public not to open parcels, the newspaper said.

A series of explosions in a southern Chinese city have left at least six people dead