{"id":25325,"date":"2013-07-21T21:27:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T17:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=25325"},"modified":"2013-07-21T21:27:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T17:27:36","slug":"explosion-rocks-beijing-airport-after-man-sets-off-homemade-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=25325","title":{"rendered":"Explosion Rocks Beijing Airport After Man Sets Off Homemade Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/china_airport_blast_lt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25323\" alt=\"china_airport_blast_lt\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/china_airport_blast_lt.jpg\" width=\"992\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/china_airport_blast_lt.jpg 992w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/china_airport_blast_lt-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/china_airport_blast_lt-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/a>An explosion rocked the arrival area of Beijing&#8217;s InternationalAirport today after a man set off a homemade bomb, according to Chinese news media.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion took place at about 6:24 p.m. local time, according to China&#8217;s state run newscaster, CCTV, which cited witness reports.<\/p>\n<p>Photos posted on Weibo, China&#8217;s version of Twitter, showed a portion of terminal 3 filled with smoke after the blast.<\/p>\n<p>Both domestic and international flights take off and land in terminal 3.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese police have identified the alleged bomber as Ji Zhongxing. He was the only one injured in the blast.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Zhongxing is a petitioner &#8212; a citizen with a grievance against government officials or police &#8212; though they did not say what Zhongxing&#8217;s grievance is.<\/p>\n<p>Less than two hours after the explosion, airport officials said operations are back to normal and no flights were affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion rocked the arrival area of Beijing&#8217;s InternationalAirport today after a man set off&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[1306],"class_list":["post-25325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-china-2","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}