China indicts eight for Tiananmen car attack: Xinhua

[World News]

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Prosecutors in western China have indicted eight people over an attack on the edge of Beijing's Tiananmen Square last October when a car ploughed into a crowd and caught fire, state media reported on Saturday. Three people in the car and two bystanders were killed in the attack which the government blamed on separatist militants from the western region of Xinjiang. The procuratorate of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, accused the eight of "organizing, leading and participating (in) a terrorist group and endangering public security with dangerous method", Xinhua news agency said. China is waging a year-long anti-terrorism campaign and has focused on Xinjiang, home to a large Muslim Uighur minority, following a series of bloody attacks that Beijing blames on Islamists and separatists from the region.

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