US Embassy Beijing 'explosion': Huge blast rocks Chinese capital with 'smoke everywhere'

Security personnel, including the military and police, were seen working around something under a blue tarpaulin within a cordon



Eyewitnesses are reporting a large explosion outside the US Embassy in Beijing.

Photos and video clips posted online show smoke, a cordon and a road partially blocked by police as eyewitnesses gather outside a gated compound.

Men in military uniforms were standing guard at the cordon, and many of the eyewitnesses were snapping photos or recording video with their mobile phones.

One video taken in the aftermath shows security personnel, including military and police, working around something under a blue tarpaulin within a cordon.

One person in normal clothes is kneeling next to the tarpaulin.

Chinese and American officials have not yet commented on the incident.

The alleged blast happened in an area where there are a number of embassies.

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