Blasts at China regional Communist Party office kill one

Explosions have been reported in northern China outside a provincial office of the ruling Communist Party.

The blasts in Taiyuan in Shanxi province were caused by a series of small devices, the official news agency Xinhua said.

It said one person had been injured and two cars damaged.

Last week a car ploughed into a crowd of tourists in Tiananmen Square in central Beijing in what the authorities said was a terrorist attack.