Young man confesses to setting off Guangzhou bus blast

A 25-year-old man has allegedly confessed to setting fire to a bus in Guangzhou last evening, leaving two dead and 32 others including some critically burned, Guangzhou police announced on Wednesday.

The man, hailing from middle China's Hunan Province, was seized by police 11:47pm in the Baiyun District in Guangzhou after the blast went off on a public transit bus around 7:30pm, police said.

He allegedly confessed to setting off the blast during police interrogation at 1:51pm today, police said.

At least eight people were critically injured and were now under intensive care.

A woman who was three months pregnant was among the injured, but her condition was not critical, said sources with the No. 2 People's Hospital in the capital city of south China's Guangdong Province.

Of the six injured passengers who were sent to the hospital, two were in critical condition.

The other injured passengers were rushed to Xinghai Hospital and No. 421 Hospital in downtown Guangzhou.

Most victims suffered burn-related injuries, and in the severest case, burns exceeded 60 percent of the body surface.

The blast went off on a bus that was in service on route 301 around 7:30pm, a spokesman for Guangzhou's public security bureau said.

The packed bus had pulled over at Nandunhe stop on Guangzhou Avenue and its doors were still open when the blast happened.