www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSPEK263745

BEIJING, Dec 27 (Reuters) - A man suspected of carrying out two bus bombings in the southwest Chinese city of Kunming in July was killed in a blast in a coffee shop earlier this week, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

Li Yan was killed in Kunming on Wednesday when an ammonia bomb in his backpack unexpectedly went off as he was walking out of the bathroom of the coffee house, Xinhua cited Du Min, vice mayor and head of the city's public security bureau, as saying.

No other people were hurt in the blast, it said.

Traces of the explosives and DNA samples taken from the scene matched those from two bus bombings in the city on July 21, leading police to confirm that Li was behind the earlier bombings, Xinhua said.

They later found ammonia explosives, electric detonators, bullets and a home-made gun in Li's apartment, it said, adding that he had been sentenced to nine years in jail for robbery and other charges in 2001 but was released early for good behaviour.

Two people died and 14 were injured in the July bus bombings, which happened amid a nationwide security clampdown weeks ahead of the Beijing Olympics. (Reporting by Jason Subler)

did the bomb actually go off in the bathroom? i didn't find evidence for that yet except that some readers here wrote so. not any of the eyewitnesses or closely related to the eyewitness said that, as far as i understood.
what about we start a discussion in the forum about possible reasons and theories of that bombing? might be easier than steadily posting comments here. and we should also discuss wether nationalistic/xenophobic motivations could have been the reason. you perhaps read that guy's comment (chris already deleted it). i think we should take that serious and have a look wether the expat community has some fault in a bad image of foreigners and if so what we could do to improve our image.

Following along the lines of Timkunming, I'm amazed that the international press hasn't picked up this story as well. In fact, I've been doing frequent web searches and haven't turned up anything beyond the expat blogs.

The police may have a lot of pressure from government departments above them, but so far no one from the press is there to breath down their necks. If we want to hear anything at all about the results of the investigation, we need the international press asking questions. Start writing those letters to the editors, people.

I think that the bomb went of by mistake. I think the guy was going to blow it up some other place, maybe on a bus. It went of in the bathroom which indicates to me that maybe he was going to take a piss or a dump and maybe placed it on the floor too hard and that is why it blew up. Just a theory.

xiaoliu's comment that Chingis refers to has been deleted. Comments or forum posts that threaten individuals or groups with violence are not welcome here.

whats this i hear about the bomber recording some kind of confession on his phone before he blew himself up?

While I agree that we do not want to use this forum to propagate fear of particular religious groups, I do not think it is nonsense to ask if the attack was religiously motivated. Whatever the motivations of the attacker- religious or political- I think we ought to consider them. Frankly, I did not sense that such deep anger towards the ex pat community was brewing, and I am very curious if architects of the attack are nationalist xenophobes, or religious fundamentalists. This is actually why I find the bomber confessing to the bus bombings rather incongruous. While the foreign community seems to have been the target of the attack at Salvadores, suggesting perhaps nationalist extremists, the bus bombing seems aimed at general social stability, and more likely the work of someone trying to undermine the central government- like religious fundamentalists.

Hey xiao liu. why not make your way over here and I'll teach you a free English lesson first. Your grammar and punctuation are terrible. How can you disrespect the English language so much?
Why did you learn English?
Go back to school Little Liu

If this case is like many others in Kunming, it will be quite some time before we hear any solid information regarding the case.

The police have a huge job on their hands now, and are certainly feeling the pressure of having to explain (or attempt to explain) what exactly happened that morning, and why.

I must say I'm really surprised at the lack of attention this has received in the national news. Having a potentially western-targeted attack anywhere in China is huge, and could be a very ominous sign of things to come. Let's all hope it was just a random act of aggression as Lester has pointed out.

hope everything is ok. greetings from germany!

Please stop using this blog for fighting and bickering. This affects all of you.
Please if anyone has real details about what happened post it rather than writing nonsense.
Thanks

Let's try to avoid a flame war here.
Acts of terrorism are committed to sow the seeds of fear and hatred. If we let that happen, then we've surrendered. The antidote is positivity and love.

Rise above

He was Chinese,
Please do not use this blog for nonsense.
This is very serious and affects all of you.

This sucks, gonna put a dent in me setting up a business here in Kunming.
BTW, is this guy Muslim or does anybody know? Not trying to offend anybody, just need to know.

xiaoliu76, that statement is totally ingnorant.