Eight indicted over Tian'anmen terror attack

Eight suspects were indicted Friday for their roles in a terrorist attack at Beijing's Tian'anman Square in October, said local procuratorate in west China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

People's Procuratorate of Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang, accused the eight of organizing, leading and participating a terrorist group and endangering public security with dangerous method, confirmed People's Procuratorate of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

The eight are to stand trial at the Urumqi Intermediate People's Court.

Usmen Hasan, his mother Kuwanhan Reyim, and his wife Gulkiz Gini, drove a jeep to crash into a crowd of people near the Jinshui Bridge across the moat of the Forbidden City on Oct. 28 last year, leaving two dead and 40 injured.

The jeep finally crashed into a guardrail of Jinshui Bridge and the three people in the jeep died after they set gasoline inside the vehicle on fire.

A total of eight suspects were captured in connection with the terrorist attack.