Shanghai Pudong airport explosion wounds three

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Image captionParamilitary police sealed off the area around Sunday's blast

An explosion at Shanghai's Pudong's International Airport has injured three people, Chinese officials say.

What appeared to be a homemade explosive blew up near a check-in counter in Terminal Two, state-run news agency Xinhua reported.

It is not yet clear who detonated the explosive or why.

In 2013 a wheelchair-bound man set off a bomb at Beijing airport to highlight a personal grievance. He later received a six-year prison sentence.

The latest incident happened at about 15:00 (07:00) on Sunday .

Eyewitness Ni Bowen told the Associated Press news agency that she was waiting to check in when there was a loud bang.

"I was scared and made off at once," she said.