Authorities in Yunnan Province insisted on Tuesday that there had been only two deaths and two bus explosions on Monday.
Zhao Yong, deputy section chief of publicity with the Yunnan Provincial Security Bureau, told Xinhua that media reports of three explosions and three deaths were "unreal."
"There were only two explosions, both involving route number 54: One blast occurred at Panjiawan Bus Stop on West Renmin Road at 7:10 a.m., while the other took place at the intersection of Changyuan Road and West Renmin Road at 8:05 a.m on a bus that was about to reach its final destination at Minshan in Kunming," said Zhao.
Kunming is the capital of the southwestern Yunnan Province.
Zhao said confusion had arisen since different stories used different points of reference to describe the locations of the two incidents.
For example, in the case of the second explosion, most reports said that it happened at the intersection of Changyuan Road and West Renmin Road, which was true, but some reporters only noted the destination of the bus -- Minshan -- giving the impression there was a third blast, Zhao said.
All but one of the 14 people injured in the two explosions were out of life-threatening danger, the provincial health department said.
The critically injured person, a woman whose identity is unknown, is in the intensive care unit of the No.1 Hospital affiliated to Kunming Medical University, according to an official at the hospital.
The two dead were identified as Wang Dezhi, a 30-year-old woman from Mouding in Chuxiong, Yunnan Province, and Chen Shifei, a 26-year-old man from the province's Lijiang Educational Science College in Dayan Town, according to the Provincial Bureau of Public Security.
Ministry of Public Security experts arrived in Kunming on Monday afternoon to help in the investigation.
(Xinhua News Agency July 22, 2008)