Beijing: At least three local officials died on Monday and three others were injured in a petrol-bomb attack by a retired female
worker in central China's Hunan province, state media said.
The officials from Hunan's Shaoyang City Tap Water Company were meeting Monday morning when the former employee threw a petrol bomb into the room, the official People's Daily reported.
Officials said police had detained Shi Yanfei, who had taken early retirement from the company. Shi was hospitalized with unspecified injuries after she jumped from a window following the attack in a sixth-floor meeting room.
One of Shi's two sons worked for the company and she was believed to have been dissatisfied with its failure to offer a job to her other son, according to a preliminary police investigation.
A general manager and two deputy general managers died in the attack, reports were quoted as saying by dpa.
They were all members of China's ruling Communist Party and were holding a meeting of the company's party committee when the attack occurred.
Petrol Bomb Kills Three Officials In Central China
