China blast at Beijing airport terminal

There has been an explosion at Beijing Capital International Airport's Terminal 3, with a man in a wheelchair apparently detonating a device.

Photos posted on China's Weibo microblogging site showed a dark-haired man waving a white package in the air before the blast.
Later images showed the wheelchair on its side with officials treating a man on the floor.
His condition was unclear. Smoke spread through the terminal after the blast.
The device went off shortly before 18:30 (10:30 GMT) near one of the terminal's arrival gates.
Xinhua news agency showed several medical workers providing emergency treatment, with police officers also at the scene.

 

Several medical workers treated the man in the terminal after the blast

 

The man was named by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV as Ji Zhongxing, from Shandong province in China's north-east. He blew up a package of gunpowder and was taken to hospital, CCTV reported.