A disgruntled man has been arrested for setting ablaze a passenger bus in southwest China to take revenge on society, killing eight people and injuring over 35 others, police said today.
The man, surnamed Su, ignited a barrel of gasoline in the bus in Guizhou Province to take revenge on society, they said.
The fire started to spread in the bus when it was passing through a primary school in the northern part of Guiyang City yesterday.
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It spread quickly and many people simply did not notice the emergency hammers to smash the bus windows in order to escape, survivors said.
A four-month-old boy was among the eight people killed and 35 others were injured, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
The injured, including one in critical condition, were being treated at local hospitals.
It is not the first such case in China in recent years.
A disgruntled man set fire to a bus in the east China's coastal city of Xiamen in June last year in which 47 people were killed and 34 others injured.
On June 5, 2009, a bus in Chengdu caught fire and left 25 passengers dead.
Police said the fire was deliberately set off by an unemployed man who died in the blaze.
