BEIJING (Reuters) - Blasts at three sites near government buildings in an eastern Chinese city killed two people and injured six on Thursday, state media reported.
The person suspected of setting off the near-simultaneous explosions several minutes' drive apart in Fuzhou, Jiangxi province, was confirmed dead in the blast, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
It did not say if the death toll of two included the suspect. Xinhua identified the dead suspect as Qin Mingqi, a 52-year-old unemployed person.
The agency had previously cited a source at the provincial government as saying a disgruntled farmer was most likely to blame.
The blasts shook the prosecutor's office, a district-level government office and the district food and drug administration, and damaged 10 vehicles, Xinhua said. Most of the windows in the eight-storey prosecutor's office were shattered after the explosion less than 100 metres away, it added.
Villager Zhang Weizhang also said it was possible a disgruntled resident was to blame.
"There are plenty of people complaining about the government. They ignore complaints. They've ignored mine," said Zhang, who said he was in a dispute over forestry rights in Fuzhou's Linchuan district.
"But nobody ordinary would do something like this. This isn't normal for here."
The Fuzhou government did not answer calls seeking comment.
Fuzhou's Communist Party boss, Gan Liangmiao, told officials in October that they must "firmly establish the idea that stability comes before all else and stability comes higher than anything else," the Fuzhou Daily said at the time.
This Fuzhou is not the same city as the provincial capital of the neighbouring province of Fujian, which is spelled the same in English but written with different Chinese characters.
Jiangxi province is home to many mines, which use explosives, and firework manufacturers. In past years, disgruntled or mentally unstable people have set off explosions near buildings or on buses in China.
Such "sudden incidents," as China refers to them, underscore broader government worries about stability in the world's second-largest economy, with a widening gap between rich and poor and growing anger at corruption and environmental issues.
This month, a petrol bomb set off by a disgruntled former employee at a rural bank in a heavily Tibetan region of northwestern China's Gansu province wounded 49 people.
In 2001, a string of explosions at workers' dormitories in the northern city of Shijiazhuang killed 108 people.
Farmers have been at the centre of many incidents of unrest and protest, with anger frequently focussed on land grabs to make way for infrastructure projects or commercial buildings.
Last year, three people set themselves on fire in a Jiangxi county not far from Fuzhou to try to stop officials forcing them
out of their homes to make way for a bus station.
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard and Chris Buckley; Editing by Robert Birsel)
