The roads around Beijing’s US embassy were chaotic, but reopened on Wednesday afternoon after two attempted attacks just hours earlier.
At around 2pm local time (4pm AEST) Fairfax Media saw police and a dozen black clothed men clearing away debris in evidence bags. Cleaners swept the road but there were blood spatters and material scattered like confetti on the road, as well as black residue.
Witnesses said there had been two incidents, the first at 11am local time, when a woman poured petrol over herself and tried to ignite it, but failed.
One witness said a woman appeared to be aged in her 40s and was carrying a container with petrol in it which she poured on herself, and shouted something about freedom. But before she could set it alight, she was taken away by security.
A second witness confirmed they had seen what they thought was a fire at about 1pm. Instead of running away, people went to have a look.
The first witness saw a man lying on the ground. Police turned up immediately and put a cloth over the body and took it away in a vehicle.
Another witness said the man had tried to blow himself up. He had lost his fingers and his shoes had flown off, the witness said.
There was a heavy police presence at the scene, and police were not permitting photographs to be taken.
The incidents happened in an area where many Chinese citizens line up each day to apply for visas.
The blast was heard from blocks away.
The dirty mozlem diseased savages that did this probably ended up dead very quickly. The chinee do not tolerate the dirty filthy mozlem savages, they kill them. Trump should tell them for every dead mozlem you kill we will allow you to import an equal number of cars at no tax…. what a deal…
The US has seen tremendous sacrifices made by it’s citizens to establish freedom and liberty. Hundreds of thousands have fought and died to maintain our way of life.
People from other countries dream, fight and die trying to be a part of this Nation of Liberty.
Yet the democrat progressive socialists continue to push our nation toward the failed policies of communism, socialism and destruction.
Looking at the headlines about this, it appears that the MSM does not want to sensationalize the incidents. Phrases such as “Small Explosive Device” and “No Injuries” are most common. Nothing Uighur to see here, move along. Except for the NYT, which headlines with “US Embassy Street Rocked By Blast”. I guess they didn’t get the memo. Or Ali Watkins is now writing headlines.