On January 16, 2016, seventeen people were killed in an arson attack on a public bus in Yingchuan, Ningxia. Police arrested 33-year-old Ma Yongping, who according to state media was involved in a debt dispute with a contractor, which led him to commit the “extreme act.” The official Global Times offered its "unconditional condemnation." Other Chinese papers have highlighted recent similar incidents, and questioned why there has been a string of such attacks. The attack shows “society's sickness,” the Oriental Daily argued. “If the government genuinely governs for the people, why will there be so many extremists carrying out attacks one after one?"