Beijing officials announced on Wednesday they have detained and charged five men with orchestrating a vehicle-crash attack in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square Monday that left five people dead, The New York Times reported. The men, arrested 10 hours after the attack on Monday, were described as Islamic Jihadists. On its microblog account, the Beijing Public Security Bureau said the men, all ethnic Uighurs from China’s western Xinjiang region, had confessed their involvement in enlisting a family of three to drive a vehicle across a crowded sidewalk and ignite the car at Tiananmen’s gate. Two tourists were killed and 40 people were injured.
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