Update:
It looks like the terroristic activity is getting heavier in China. Latest news is an big attack the police with hand-grenates. Sixteen policemen were killed. According to local police this is a terroristic attack and the regional public security department had got clues suggesting that the "East Turkistan Islamic Movement" planned to make terrorist attacks during August 1-8, just ahead of the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing.
Source: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/index.html
Little-known Muslim group claims responsibility for a series of explosions in Chinese cities and warns that its next target will be the Beijing Games. See article in the Guardian
Older article: This morning China got his first terroristic attack on several places. In Kunming the first attack on a bus took place at 07:10 on West Renmin Road. The second attack took place not far from the first at 08:05 on the crossing of Changyuan Road and West Renmin Road, say around the corner.At least three people were killed and 14 others were heavily wounded. Probably a third bus exploded with a simular kind of bomb-attack in Minshan district. News about that explosion is not certain. Some newsagencies talk about an explosion and other say there nothing unusual in Minshan.
Update 22-7: Chinese police are investigating a bizarre text message warning residents of Kunming to avoid buses hours before two bomb blasts killed two passengers in the Monday rush hour, local media reported. "The general mobilization of ants... (I) hope citizens receiving this message will not take bus lines 54, 64 and 84 tomorrow morning," the newspaper quoted the message as saying. Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080722/wl_nm/china_blasts_dc



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