Airport blast

    A 29-year-old inveterate* gambler* has been identified as the lead suspect behind a small explosion at Shanghai’s main international airport that injured four people, city police said on Monday.

    A statement on the police force’s microblog said Zhou Xingbai had traveled to Shanghai from the neighboring province of Jiangsu to commit the crime and had previously posted on the Internet that he was deep in debt and intended to “do something really crazy.” It said Sunday’s explosion was carried out using fireworks stuffed inside empty beer bottles. The blast at a check-in area at Pudong International Airport occurred at around 2:20 p.m., but caused no disruptions* to flights.

    Boat tragedy

    The nine-day search for survivors after a boating accident in Guangyuan, Sichuan Province has come to a sad end, with all 14 missing people found dead.

    By midday Sunday, the operation had retrieved* all the bodies from the water. The accident happened on the afternoon of June 4 when a leisure boat with 18 people onboard capsized in gales* on White Dragon Lake, in Lizhou District of Guangyuan, the northernmost city in Sichuan.

    Night market to close

    The Donghuamen night market, a fixture* in downtown Beijing for the past 32 years, has announced it will shut down by the end of this month.

    Noise levels and hygiene* problems at the market are to blame. An inspector of Beijing’s Dongcheng District Food and Drug Administration says the unhygienic food storage conditions in the stalls and improper management of food waste disposal have led to concerns of food hygiene at the market. The noises from shouting vendors until midnight every day have also long disturbed residents of the area.

    Peacekeeper’s body

    The body of Chinese soldier Shen Liangliang on the U.N. peacekeeping mission, who was killed in a terrorist attack in Mali last month, arrived in Northeast China’s Changchun City on Thursday afternoon.

    The 29-year-old sergeant* first class was killed in a terrorist attack on the night of May 31 in the northern Malian town of Gao. (SD-Agencies)