A man was seriously injured yesterday in an explosion at a coffee bar in southwest China's Yunnan Province, police and witnesses said.

The incident happened about 10:30 am at Salvador's Coffee House, a Western restaurant near Yunnan University, said a spokesman for the Kunming municipal public security bureau. An investigation is under way.

A resident living near the bar said she saw the victim, a young man, being carried out of the bar by rescuers.

"His legs were bleeding and seemed to be broken," said the woman, who declined to give her name.

The woman said the blast shook her house. "I came out to check what was going on and saw a foreign young man rush out of the bar. He leaned against a tree and his friends came to console him. Police and medical workers went in and in a few minutes the victim was carried out."

Police had cordoned off the cafe when Xinhua reporters arrived at the site around 12:40 pm.

(Xinhua News Agency December 25, 2008)