Chinese police say kindergarten blast that killed eight was a ‘criminal act’
Two people died immediately in explosion that may have been caused by a gas canister
An investigator at the scene on Friday of an explosion outside a kindergarten in rural Fengxian county in China . Photograph: Aly Song/Reuters
Police are calling an explosion outside a kindergarten in eastern China which killed eight and injured dozens “a criminal act” and have preliminarily identified a suspect or suspects linked to the blast, the state-run People’s Daily said.