Filipino hurt in China blast

Chinese paramilitary policemen guard a closed off area of the Shanghai’s Pudong airport after an explosion on Sunday, June 12, 2016. A small explosion at a check-in area of the airport injured a few people Sunday, Chinese authorities said. (AP Photo/Paul Traynor)

A FILIPINO seaman was among those injured in a bombing at Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport on Sunday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Monday.

DFA spokesperson Charles Jose said the Philippine consulate in Shanghai confirmed that a 52-year-old Filipino seafarer was injured in the bombing, sustaining a minor foot injury. He was treated at a nearby hospital and was put up in a hotel after he was discharged.

Jose said the seaman, who was not identified, had disembarked from a container ship from the United States that had docked in Shanghai. He was at the airport to catch a flight to Manila.

3 others injured

Wire reports said the blast at Pudong, China’s second-largest airport, injured three other persons aside from the Filipino, including a 67-year-old man and a 64-year-old woman, both of them Chinese. Doctors said they suffered injuries in their heads, hands and legs.

Report said a man was seen throwing an “explosive wine bottle” before severing his own throat at around 2:20 p.m. at Terminal 2.