Police say 5 arrested in Tiananmen Gate attack


October 30, 2013 at 2:51p.m.

Police say 5 arrested in Tiananmen Gate attack

BEIJING (AP) — Police announced today the arrests of five people in connection with this week’s suicide car crash in the heart of China’s capital, calling it a planned terror attack – Beijing’s first in recent history – and identifying the attackers as members of a Muslim minority. Police said the five suspects were detained the same day as the Monday noon attack at the Forbidden City gate across from Tiananmen Square, in the culturally and politically sensitive section of Beijing where China’s Communist Party leaders live and work.