Tiananmen crash: Xinjiang security tightened

October 31, 2013

Security appears to have been increased in China’s Xinjiang region, a day after police said they had detained five suspects over the Tiananmen crash. Security levels are raised and police are visiting “sensitive religious families”, police told the BBC.

A car crashed into a crowd and burst into flames at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Monday, killing all three in the car and two bystanders.

Some of Xinjiang’s Muslim Uighur group complain of cultural and religious repression under Beijing’s rule and there have been sporadic outbreaks of violence. China says it grants the Uighurs wide-ranging freedoms.

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