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<\/a>Damaged buildings and cars are seen near the site of the explosions at the Binhai new district, Tianjin, 13 August 2015\nImage caption<\/p>\n
The area around the explosions in Tianjin remains closed<\/p>\n
The rumours described by the latest statement include reports that a man had jumped to his death in Beijing due to the stock market slump and that as many as 1,300 people were killed in Tianjin blasts, Xinhua said.<\/p>\n
The news agency said “seditious rumours about China’s upcoming commemorations of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II” were also among the offences.<\/p>\n
A journalist was also arrested along with several stock market officials, according to a Xinhua report. The journalist, Wang Xiaolu, is accused of “spreading fake information” about the market slump, the report said.
\n‘Picking quarrels’<\/p>\n
The state news agency said Mr Wang confessed that he “wrote fake report on Chinese stock market based on hearsay and his own subjective guesses without conducting due verifications”.<\/p>\n
In 2013 Chinese authorities introduced a possible three-year sentence for spreading rumours – the sentence was supposed to apply to anyone who posted a rumour that was reposted 500 times or viewed 5,000 times.<\/p>\n
Last year, Qin Zhihui, a blogger, was sentenced to three years in a government crackdown on internet rumours. Mr Qin was found guilty of “slander” and “picking quarrels and provoking troubles”, state broadcaster CCTV said at the time.<\/p>\n
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