Airport bomber wanted attention

The man who set off a bomb at Shanghai Pudong International Airport in June, slightly injuring four passengers, said during a court hearing on Wednesday that he did so to draw public attention to people like him.

"As migrant workers, we have low incomes and women of our age will never give us an opportunity for love and marriage. I wanted a change, and I chose to die," Zhou Xingbai, a 29-year-old native of Southwest China's Guizhou province, said during the hearing at Shanghai No 3 Intermediate People's Court.

Prosecutors filed charges against Zhou, who has been a migrant worker in Guangdong and Jiangsu provinces since he graduated from high school in 2006, of endangering public safety by causing an explosion.