A man in eastern China's Jiangsu Province has been charged for allegedly claiming he was behind a series of bus bombings in southern China in July and threatening to launch more attacks.

Wang Wei, 24, has been accused of spreading online postings on several major Chinese BBS communities saying that he was responsible for two bus explosions in Kunming, capital city of Yunnan Province on July 21 that killed two people and injured 14, according to Weiyang District Procuratorate in Jiangsu's Yangzhou City.

Wang was said to have posted the false information on July 23 under the name of some anti-government groups, the Procuratorial Daily reported yesterday.

Wang, who was working in Yangzhou with his family, also threatened to launch a series of blast attacks in August and urged online users to spread his postings to cause "nationwide attention," the report said.

Yangzhou police detained Wang the day after he put his postings online, the newspaper said.

Previously, police in Kunming had already detained two people and warned four others for spreading false information on the Internet about the bus explosions.

The Kunming police have tripled the reward for any information leading to the arrest of a suspect to 300,000 yuan (US$44,000) and said that they were looking for a man wearing a white coat and jeans on the day when the blasts hit the city.

(Shanghai Daily September 1, 2008)