Explosion in Shenzhen.

An explosion ripped through a superstore in the bustling business district of downtown Shenzhen just one day after a reported visit by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il to the city. Accounts of the incident that surfaced in Hong Kong papers on Tuesday said the explosives were left in a storage locker at the Carrefour superstore detonated at around 1 p.m. injuring three workers.

Prior to the attack, five superstores including Carrefour, Shenzhen Xinyijia Supermarket and the Shenzhen Baijia Supermarket reportedly received bomb threats.

Do things explode regularly in China, or does that only happen when Kim Jong Il is in town? I don’t know quite what to make of this. [link]