Coffee bar explosion injures one in southwest China's Kunming
24/12/2008 17:24
A man was seriously injured today in an explosion at a coffee bar in
Kunming in southwest China's Yunnan Province, police and witnesses said.
The
incident happened at about 10:30 a.m. at Salvador's Coffee House, a Western
restaurant near Yunnan University, said a spokesman for the Kunming municipal
public security bureau. An investigation is under way.
A resident living near
the bar claimed to have seen the victim, a young man, being carried out of the
bar by rescuers. "His legs were bleeding and seemingly broken," said the woman,
who declined to give her name.
The woman said the blast shook her house. "I
came out to check what was going on and saw a foreign young man rush out of the
bar. He leaned against a tree and his friends came to console him. Police and
medical workers went in and in a few minutes, the victim was carried
out."
Police had cordoned off the bar when Xinhua reporters arrived at the
site around 12:40 p.m.
Witnesses said they saw no flames, only some
smoke.
The cafe is said to be one of the best international restaurants in
Kunming, according to an online rating published this week at gokunming.com, a
website run by three foreign nationals and two Chinese.
Xinhua
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