WUHAN - A man suspected of causing an explosion near a State-owned bank in Central China thismonth was arrested on Friday, local police said.
According to Wuhan police, Wang Haijian, the 24-year-old suspect, confessed that his motivefor the explosion, which left two people dead and 15 injured, was to rob a cash truck, police saidThe blast occurred outside a branch of ChinaConstruction Bank about 5:30 pm on Dec 1 in theHongshan district of Wuhan, capital of Hubeiprovince.
Lang Ping, a spokesman for the Wuhan publicsecurity bureau, said Wang was arrested inWuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou MilitaryCommand when he was sleeping in the waitingroom of the hospital.
"Wuhan is cold now, and he did not take a lot ofpersonal belongings when he fled, so weconcluded he might hide in a warm place," Langsaid.
Wang was reported by hospital staff to be at thesite at 10 am.
Two hours later, he was arrested.
Feng Xuebin, deputy director of the criminalinvestigation department of the Wuhan publicsecurity bureau, said police had conducted arigorous investigation after the blast.
On Dec 4, they announced a reward for clueson their micro blog, which has attracted muchattention.
Police later identified Wang, a native of Zaoyang in Hubei, as the suspect, saying he had beencaught on surveillance cameras.
Wang, an air conditioner repairman working in Wuhan, lived in a village in the city's Donghu NewTechnology Development Zone before the explosion. But the police were unable to find him.
They publicized his photo and offered a 100,000 yuan ($15,870) reward for information that ledto his arrest.
An initial police investigation found that the explosion was triggered by an unidentified objectoutside a nearby drugstore.
After preliminary examination, police said, Wang admitted making home-made explosive devicesand attempting to rob an armored car by detonating a bomb.
The case is still under investigation
Xinhua contributed to this story.
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Wang Haijian, a suspect in an explosion outside a bank branch on Dec 1, is being under arrest bypolice in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province. Pan Feng / for China Daily
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