Rescuers and police officers work at the site of a charred bus in Yinchuan Andrew Whitworth Jersey , Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on Tuesday. A fire believed to be set by a disgruntled sub-contractor killed 17 passengers, injuring 32. Photo: CFP The suspected arsonist involved in a deadly bus fire in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region had taken "vindictive action against society" due to debt disputes with a construction project contractor, local authorities said Tuesday.
Ma Yongping, 33, brought two bottles of gasoline onto a Route 301 bus in Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia Connor Barwin Jersey , at around 7 am Tuesday. He used a lighter to start the conflagration and jumped out of the driver's window, the city government announced on its official Sina Weibo account late Tuesday.
By press time, the fire killed 17 and injured 32, eight of whom are in serious condition.
Ma, a sub-contractor from Shizuishan in Ningxia, was in dispute over a debt with a contractor over a migrant worker settlement project in Helan Samson Ebukam Jersey , a county administered by Yinchuan. "Disgruntled in the dispute, Ma resorted to extreme action to avenge society," the statement said. Ma confessed his role in the bus arson in his initial police interrogation, it said.
Ma was arrested at 4:23 pm, Su Jie, an employee of