2013 Tiananmen Square attack
2013 Tiananmen Square car attack | |
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Part of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement | |
Motive | Islamic extremism[2] |
On 28 October 2013, a car ran over pedestrians and crashed in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, in a terrorist suicide attack.[3] Five people died in the incident; three inside the vehicle and two others nearby.[4][5] Police identified the driver as Usmen Hasan and the two passengers as his wife, Gulkiz Gini, and his mother, Kuwanhan Reyim.[4] An additional 38 people were injured.[4]
Chinese police described it as a "major incident"
Incident
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Investigation
Chinese police later issued a notice to Beijing hotels seeking information about two people from China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.[3] The notice described a vehicle and four Xinjiang number plates.[3] They also instructed hotels to be aware of "suspicious" guests.[8]
The police notice also required hotels to report all guests who had registered since 1 October, and the cars they had driven. The request was issued "In order to prevent the suspects and vehicles from committing more crimes".[9]
Five people were later arrested by Chinese police, all being
Top Chinese security official
Reaction
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Six days after the attack, General
Then-United States
See also
References
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- ^ a b c Kaiman, Jonathan (25 November 2013). "Islamist group claims responsibility for attack on China's Tiananmen Square". The Guardian.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Tiananmen crash: China police 'seek Xinjiang suspects'". BBC News Online. 29 October 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
- ^ a b c d e "Chinese police say Tiananmen Square crash was 'premeditated, violent, terrorist attack". Washington Post. Associated Press. 30 October 2013. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
- ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
- ^ "China police call Tiananmen Gate suicide attack an act of terrorism, arrest 5 suspects". Washington Post. Associated Press. 31 October 2013. Archived from the original on 30 October 2013. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
- ^ Wen, Philip (25 November 2013). "Turkestan Islamic Party Islamist group warns of more attacks such as Tiananmen". The Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ Times of India. 29 October 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
- ^ a b "Beijing Looks for Uighur Link After Tiananmen Fireball". TIME magazine. 29 October 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
- ^ "China executes eight, including Tiananmen attackers". BBC. 24 August 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
- ^ a b Bodeen, Christopher (1 November 2013). "China: East Turkestan movement behind deadly crash". Bigstory.ap.org. Archived from the original on 10 November 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
- ^ a b Andrew Jacobs (3 November 2013). "China Strips Army Official of Position After Attack". The New York Times.
- ^ "China police hunt Beijing explosion suspects". Al Jazeera. 29 October 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2013.