CHINA. INTERNET CAFE BOMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH

unemployed Lu Dongming, 45, and his 24-year-old nephew Lu Kuan were sentenced to death for detonating homemade bombs in two Internet cafes in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei, killing two people and injuring four others. The two were found guilty of plotting and executing the explosions on May 5, 2006, at the Haoyu and Juxing Internet cafes in an attempt to blackmail other Internet cafes, according to the ruling of the Intermediate People's Court of Hefei in eastern Anhui province. Short of money, Lu Dongming came up with the idea to detonate the bombs in the two Internet cafes in March. He planned to tell other cafes that they would be subject to the same fate if they failed to pay him large sums of money, according to the police.