The following has in no way been confirmed to be legitimate, however I wanted to post it here to see if anyone had heard anything about this.
From the Hangzhou Expat forum:
This information has not and most likely will not appear in the press or the media. But a co-worker’s wife who works in a medical treatment center in Shanghai just recently received between 20-30 victims of two separate bombing incidents on the Shanghai subway.
It’s being kept very, very under wraps at the moment, so no word on who was responsible, if the perpetrators were or were not terrorists, which subway station it was at, or exactly when it happened; but it was sometime within the past week. Apparently, the patients were rushed into the hospital sometime late at night.
Another Shanghai co-worker of mine mentioned that within the past week, preceding the incident, the Shanghai police have been combing the People’s Square subway station with police dogs to sniff out potentially hazardous or dangerous substances. Those who have been to Shanghai lately may notice that all subway stations no longer contain garbage bins.
This is definitely not a hoax and not an attempt to spread paranoia. Rather, it is being disseminated in the interest of raising public awareness of the situation in China in the months leading up to the Olympics.
If you are traveling to Shanghai and plan on using public transportation, be vigilant. If you see any suspicious persons leaving bags or unknown materials unattended, please alert the authorities as soon as possible, and get away as far as you can. Furthermore, keep your distance from large gatherings and crowds, no matter how tempting it may be to leer at public confrontations. The scene may or may not be a ploy to gather a crowd of people in order to perpetrate something injurious.
I’ve debated long and hard about the repercussions of posting this information online. I know a topic heading like this WILL, indeed, attract a lot of attention, and may end up being summarily deleted anyways. But I finally decided that it’s in the public’s best interest to stay informed about their own safety. Take care of yourselves.
I sent this around on Twitter, but I don’t really believe it myself. Any explosions on the subways would be witnessed/affect tens of thousands of people. The censorship machine is pretty good, but it ain’t that good.
“Those who have been to Shanghai lately may notice that all subway stations no longer contain garbage bins.” And this is down from like one garbage bin per station before? 🙂
I really hope this isn’t true.
I tend to agree that there’s no way this would be silenced. When it was posted, I thought perhaps it was just a slow response for people affected to report on it. As a few hours have passed and still no word, I tend to feel it’s bunk. But agreed Matt, I really hope it’s not true too. This country doesn’t need any more victims this week.
I work right near the People’s Square subway station. If this was true I am sure we would’ve seen something on the streets.
I wonder if it is just paranoia as the metro authority and the police upgraded their security presence and luggage inspections because of the Olympics.
J.
In Shanghai?Maybe these Uighurs now moved to Shanghai,as there was in the past some bombing attacks in Beijing:buses…
That’s a golden chance for all small minorieties who claim freedom and indipendence:for the sake of Kossovo and the Olimpics…
. . Uyghurs . . Kosovo . . Olympics . . . there is a connection?? The plot thickens
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I was told yesterday the 22/07 by a ‘friend’ that there was a bombing in Shanghai on the 22nd, the source is extremely reliable, the father being a mid-tier government official. There was also two other bombing incidents on the same day in Yunan. Both of which were on buses on the same route (different times). thus the reason I am on this site, trying to search for leaked info. They’re understandably attempting to cover this up.