Bomb Kills 14 At Illegal Gambling Hall In ChinaSeven Others Wounded In Monday Explosion |
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The only place in China where gambling is legal is Macau, but elsewhere in the country of more than 1.3 billion gambling does occur.
This week, a bomb went off at an illegal gambling hall in a village in China’s southwest Guizou province, Aljazeera reported. Initial reports have the death toll at 14 people, while seven others were injured.
Officials said that the blast struck at about 2:30 p.m. local time on Monday in Laoshan Village. The explosion is currently under further investigation by police.
As Aljazeera pointed out, “[g]ambling is illegal in China and such operations are mostly connected to organised crime. Guns are strictly controlled, making homemade bombs the weapon of choice…Blasts are also sometimes caused by the illegal or unsafe storage of fireworks, demand for which spikes in the run-up to the Lunar New Year that falls this year on January 31.”
Macau, a former Portuguese colony located in the southwest area of the country, is the top gambling market in the world, taking in billions from mainland Chinese gamblers in 2013.
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