$14,280 reward offered for blasts clue

The Kunming public security bureau yesterday announced a 100,000-yuan ($14,280) reward for anyone providing information leading to the arrest of people behind Monday's bus blasts, and denied getting any text message giving prior warning of the incident.

Two persons were killed and 14 injured when explosions ripped through two buses on route No 54 on a busy street in Yunnan's provincial capital on Monday morning.

"Police did not get such a (prior warning) text message," Du Min, Kunming's deputy mayor and head of the city's public security bureau said in response to a Southern Metropolis Daily report that claimed some residents had received a text message in the early hours of Monday.