A man was injured when a homemade bomb he was carrying exploded outside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing Thursday.

Beijing police have identified the bomber as a 26-year-old man from China’s Inner Mongolia region. The man’s hand was injured by the device, which police say was made from fireworks.

The incident occurred near the area where visa applicants line up to enter the embassy for interviews.

Photos posted on social media after the blast showed of a large cloud of smoke filling the air outside the diplomatic compound in the Chinese capital. The embassy is located in a section of Beijing that is home to numerous embassies, including those of India and Israel.

The state-run Global Times newspaper earlier Thursday said police had detained a woman near the U.S. embassy who had doused herself with gasoline in a suspected attempt at self-immolation.
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