The suspect who made the blasts on the campus of prestigious Peking and Tsinghua universities in Beijing on February 25 was seized in Fuzhou, capital of east China's Fujian Province, early this morning.
Chinese police seized the suspect at 00:20 am Saturday, said Qiang Wei, deputy secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), at a panel discussion attended by deputies from Beijing Municipality to the on-going First Session of the 10th National People's Congress.
Native of Fuzhou, the 27-year-old suspect is a worker on a farm in south China's Hainan Province.
Police has discovered the scene where the suspect made explosives and the leftovers in Beijing. The suspect confessed all he had done in the two explosions. He will be sent to Beijing later this morning.
Two blasts rocked the respective cafeterias on the campus of Peking and Tsinghua universities in Beijing at noon on Feb. 25, injuring nine students and staff altogether.
The police found the two explosions were caused by home-made gunpowder.
The CPC Central Committee and the State Council showed great concern to the case, ordering the public security organs to solve the case in a shortest possible period of time.
Under the coordination of the Ministry of Public Security, Beijing police set up a special group and made investigations at the spots of the two explosions and finally narrowed the search scope to Fuzhou, the homeland of the suspect.
(Xinhua News Agency March 8, 2003)
