| inbluevt | Date: Wednesday, 2013/10/30, 0:42 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Chinese police are seeking two suspects believed to be members of China's Uighur ethnic minority in connection with an apparent suicide car crash Monday in Beijing's Tiananmen Square
that killed two tourists and the vehicle's three passengers.
Police investigating a vehicle that plowed through pedestrians and crashed at Beijing’s Forbidden City in an apparent suicide rampage searched Tuesday for information on two ethnic Uighur suspects believed linked to the attack, which killed five people and injured 38.
Police released no information about a possible motive for Monday’s incident at one of China’s most politically sensitive and heavily guarded public spaces. But investigators sent a notice to hotels in the city aimed at tracing the recent movements of two suspects, and possibly
at uncovering any other conspirators.
The sports utility vehicle veered inside a barrier separating a crowded sidewalk from a busy avenue and then plowed through pedestrians as it sped toward Tiananmen Gate, where it crashed into a stone structure near a large portrait of Mao Zedong which hangs near the
entrance to the former imperial palace.
The vehicle’s three occupants were killed along with two bystanders, including a Filipino woman. The 38 injured included three other Filipinos and a Japanese man, police said.
The gate stands opposite sprawling Tiananmen Square, which was the focus of the 1989 pro-democracy movement that was violently suppressed by the military, and any incident there is highly sensitive.
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People walk along the sidewalk of Chang'an Avenue as the smoke continues. Photo: Reuters
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