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Several small bombs exploded in front of a Communist Party building in the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan on Wednesday (November 6), killing one person and injuring another eight, state media said.

The official Xinhua news agency said what appeared to be small-scale bombs went off outside an office building of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party. Taiyuan is the capital of Shanxi province.

There was no immediate explanation for the attack. But such incidents are not uncommon in China and underscore the government's worries about stability in the world's second-largest economy, with a widening gap between rich and poor and growing anger at corruption and environmental issues.

Footage shot by state-run China News Service showed emergency trucks parked outside mostly undamaged buildings, and security cordons were set up to block traffic in the are