Beijing begins all-round bus safety checks one week ahead of Olympics

BEIJING, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- About 25,000 security personnel started working on thousands of Beijing buses and at bus stations on Friday to remove possible safety risks during the Olympic Games. Bus safety has become a focus of the Olympic security deployment after a bus explosion in Shanghai in May that killed three and two others in Kunming that left two dead in July. "I only check the suspicious passengers according to my experiences because of the large flow of people," said Wang, a conductor and safety supervisor of the No. 9 bus and identified by her red armband printed with "Beijing Bus Security Check." "I will ask him to open his bags if somebody shows uneasy symptoms." The security personnel, comprising mechanics, management and support personnel of the Beijing Public Transport Holdings Ltd., were deployed "at every... [read full story]