CHINA HIT BY THIRD BUS BOMB IN A WEEK

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Chinese media are playing down reports of a third bus blast in southwestern Kunming tonight – exactly a week after two explosions killed two people in the city.

A witness said he heard a loud blast shortly before 9pm local time and saw police and ambulance staff gathered around a damaged vehicle only 200 metres from the scene of one of the previous incidents.

In a video obtained by an terrorism watchdog this weekend, the little-known Turkestan Islamic Party -- thought by some analysts to be another name for the East Turkestan Islamic Movement -- claimed responsibility for last week's explosions and several other incidents.

They included a bus blast in Shanghai in May, in which three people died and 12 were injured. It was blamed on a passenger carrying "flammable materials".