A Chinese man was sentenced to death today for triggering explosions that killed one person and injured 17 others outside a provincial Communist Party headquarters last year.
The Taiyuan Intermediate People's court in north China's Taiyuan city handed down the death sentence of Feng Zhijun, 42 for setting off explosions outside the Communist Party of China headquarters in the provincial capital on November 6 last year.
He said he will not appeal to a higher court, a statement from the court said, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Feng placed bombs in at least two locations outside the compound of the CPC building at busy thoroughfare in the city of Taiyuan on November last year, killing one and injuring 17 others.
He was apprehended after two days.
He has been previously sentenced to nine years in prison for theft, the court said.
It is not yet clear why he resorted to bomb the CPC office. According to earlier official media reports he admitted to have intentionally committed the crime in order to "take revenge on society".
He also reported confessed all details of his crime, police said without disclosing what exactly his grievance that made him to resort to this violent act.
Acts by disgruntled people marginalised by fast paced social and economic changes as well as growing rich-poor divide have become common with many targeting civilians with knife attacks.
