page_title: Huanggutun incident
section_title: Explosion
hierarchical_section_title: Huanggutun incident / Events / Explosion
caption_attribution_description: English: Wreck of Chang Tso-lin's saloon coach 日本語: 張作霖の乗っていた貴賓車の残骸
context_page_description: The Huanggutun Incident, also known as the Zhang Zuolin Explosion Death Incident, was the assassination of the Fengtian warlord Zhang Zuolin near Shenyang on 4 June 1928.
  Zhang was killed when his personal train was destroyed by an explosion at the Huanggutun Railway Station that had been plotted and committed by the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Army. Zhang's death had undesirable outcomes for the Japan, which had hoped to advance its interests in Manchuria at the end of the Warlord Era, and the incident was concealed as the "A Certain Important Incident in Manchuria" in Japan. The incident delayed the Japanese invasion of Manchuria for several years until the Mukden Incident in 1931.
context_section_description: Zhang left Beijing to go to Shenyang by train on the night of 3 June 1928. The train traveled along the Jingfeng Railway, a route that was heavily patrolled by his own troops. The only location along the railway that was not under Zhang's control was a bridge several kilometres east of Huanggutun Railway Station on the outskirts of Shenyang, where the South Manchuria Railway crossed the Jingfeng Railway on the bridge.
  Colonel Daisaku Kōmoto, a junior officer in the Kwantung Army, believed that the assassination of Zhang would be the most expeditious way of installing a new leader more amenable to Japanese demands and planned an operation without direct orders from Tokyo. His subordinate, Captain Kaneo Tōmiya, was in charge of executing the plan. The bomb itself was planted on the bridge by Sapper First Lieutenant Sadatoshi Fujii. When Zhang's train passed the bridge at 5:23 a.m. on June 4, the bomb exploded. Several of Zhang's officials, including the governor of Heilongjiang province Wu Junsheng (吳俊升), died immediately. Zhang was mortally wounded and sent back to his home in Shenyang. He died several hours later.
caption: Wreck of Chang Tso-lin's saloon coach
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