t**8 发帖数: 4527 | 1 Reports surfaced on Thursday afternoon, local time, of a suspected explosion
near the U.S. embassy in Beijing.
CNBC could not immediately verify the reports, but multiple media outlets
cited eyewitnesses.
Chinese state media outlet Global Times reported on Twitter that a witness
said police took away a woman "spraying gasoline on herself" outside the
embassy.
The New York Times reported that the incident happened at around 1 p.m.
local time and involved a blast that was heard blocks away.
Images and videos posted on Twitter showed a large amount of smoke and what
appeared to be police vehicles surrounding the vast structure in
northeastern Beijing on Thursday afternoon.
Police did not immediately respond to the incident, the Associated Press
reported. |
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