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Passenger caught with sulfuric acid

A man, surnamed Wang, was put in a detention house as punishment for attempting to take two bottles of concentrated sulfuric acid onto a passenger train in Zibo during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. Wang, who is a native of Henan province, eventually admitted to having the banned substance after being asked to drink the liquid by security staff at the city's railway station. He originally claimed the bottles contained wine he had purchased for his father.