Sausage suicide bomber

Chinese police were held in a hour-long stand-off with a suspected suicide bomber only to find the man was armed with sausages. Police believed that the straps and bulky items around Sing He's waist were dynamite and detonators.

He, 23, threatened to blow up a restaurant and its customers in Benxi, northern China, unless the staff handed over the contents of the till.

But a bomb unit quickly determined that the device was assembled with pork products.