Jealousy and a desire for revenge drove a man to set...

Jealousy and a desire for revenge drove a man to set off a blast which killed 47 people in a northwestern Chinese village of cave dwellings in July, police said.
"(The suspect), Ma Hongqing, was under extreme pressure, his mood was abnormal and he swore he would get revenge," a policeman in Yulin, 400 km (250 miles) north of the provincial capital of Xi'an, told Reuters, reading from an official statement.
Ma, 51, had gone bankrupt through a series of business failures and set off the explosives - illegally stored in a rival villager's cave dwelling - out of extreme jealousy.
Ma, a former maker of explosives and chicken feed, "had serious conflicts with fellow explosives makers in the village, several of whom had pressed him to pay up his debts prior to the incident", the official news agency Xinhua said.
The official toll from the blast was 47 dead and 85 injured, but residents of the village said at the time they believed as many as three times that number had died.
"A death sentence is one hundred percent sure. We have a precedent," said the officer, referring to the execution of the deaf bomber convicted of killing 108 people in a series of blasts in March in the northern industrial city of Shijiazhuang. Two people from a nearby village who had sold the bomber explosives and fuses were also executed.
After that incident China imposed a crackdown on unlicensed explosives makers.
The Mafang blast, which razed at least 30 cave houses cut out of hillsides, was at first labelled a mishap, then blamed on a rival of Ma Hongqing who had hidden the illegal explosives in his family's cave dwelling soon after the ban.
The police officer said Ma Hongqing used a seven-metre (23-foot) fuse to set off the explosives hidden by Ma Shiping, one of the men with whom he had had business conflicts. The fate of Ma Shiping would be decided "in the same way" as that of the two people executed for selling explosives to the bomber in Shijiazhuang, the police officer said.
He declined to elaborate, but said trials were expected soon.