Land Rover blowout triggers controversy

Video surveillance shows that a black Land Rover car was passing through an intersection in Sanhe, in north China’s Hebei Province, when it suddenly exploded, triggering controversy on China’s Internet. Some people say the owner of the vehicle poured gasoline into where the oil should go. Someone also commented that the car had been planted with a bomb, and somebody even linked the explosion to the Samsung Note 7 mobile phone in the car. According to the Sanhe police department’s Weibo account, after an investigation, it was confirmed that a tire blowout caused the incident. The vehicle hit the road in the middle of the barrier, and the debris led to two cars being damaged on the opposite side, and two people suffered minor injuries in the incident.