China shopping mall bomb injures 47, one seriously

SHANGHAI, Thursday (Reuters) - A bomb ripped through a crowded shopping mall in northeastern China on Wednesday, shattering glass windows and injuring 47 people, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

The report did not mention fatalities but said one person had been seriously injured. A wanted murder suspect had tossed an "explosive package" at another man in a two-storey mall in Liaoning province's Liaoyang county, Xinhua reported.

olice arrested the suspect - who had fled the country but snuck back into China seeking revenge on his target - on the spot, Xinhua reported. He had been suspected of committing murder when he ran a coal mine in northern Hebei province, the news agency said without elaborating. An investigation was under way.

Industrial explosives are readily available in China and sometimes used in attacks blamed on laid-off state workers, disgruntled farmers, jilted lovers or social malcontents.