Monday, October 28, 2013

Five killed as car crashes into Tiananmen Square

BEIJING - Five people were killed and dozens injured on Monday, the government said, when a car ploughed into pedestrians and caught fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, the site of 1989 pro-democracy protests bloodily suppressed by the military. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, asked whether the government believed the incident was a terror attack, said she did not know the specifics of the case and declined further comment. The three people in the car died, they said. The Beijing city government said on one of its official news websites that a female tourist from the Philippines and a male tourist from southern Guangdong province had also died. Of the 38 injured, three were tourists from the Philippines and one from Japan, it added.

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/10/28/three-killed-as-car-crashes-into-tiananmen-square

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