It's all in the spin

We are back in Shanghai and as usual it's the newspapers that always amaze me. Take the "accident" yesterday that killed eight people and injured over 200. If it's true, it's a horrible accident. If it's something else it took a pretty creative guy to come up with this story.

Seems two trucks loaded with 70 metric tons of explosives blew up in front of a motor vehicle testing station. The explanation according to the Guizhou police was they were parked illegally and one truck caught fire causing the blast. Now far be it from me to be a skeptic but in any other country an explosion that goes off made of 70 tons of dynamite carried in two trucks that destroys a government building might be construed as a terrorist attack of some sort. Not the case here of course because as we all know there is no dissent in China.

The people responsible for the blast, the drivers and execs from the trucking company have been detained according to the newspaper while the investigation continues.

But all is not lost - the city government has allocated 5 million yuan or $787,000 (US) for those in need of medical treatment and relocation. That's China for you.

P.S ignore the date it's really Nov 3. I'm still at novice at all this