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1st LD Writethru: Kyrgyzstan identifies organizers, perpetrators of terrorist attack on Chinese embassy

Xinhua, September 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

Kyrgyzstan authorities on Tuesday said they have identified the organizers and perpetrators of the terrorist attack on the Chinese embassy in capital Bishkek last week.

The press service for the Kyrgyz State Committee for National Security said in an announcement that the attack on Aug. 30 was organized by Uighur terrorist groups active in Syria and affiliated with Jabhat al-Nusra.

The task of organizing the attack was given by one of al-Nusra's emissaries, which also provided financial support to the terrorist act.

The committee added that the suicide bomber was a member of the terrorist organization the East Turkistan Islamic Movement.

"This is a member of East Turkistan Islamic Movement, a terrorist organization active in Syria, a Uighur named Zoir Khalilov, who had a passport from Tajikistan," said the committee.

It specified that the attacker rammed the western gates of the Chinese Embassy with a Mitsubishi Delica car. An improvised explosive device inside the car detonated after the vehicle entered embassy grounds.

The explosion caused extensive damage to embassy buildings and facilities with the lone assailant instantly killed. Two Kyrgyz employees of the embassy and three Chinese people were injured.

The Kyrgyz security committee has detained five accomplices of the terrorist act, who are natives of Kyrgyzstan's Osh and Jalal-Abad regions, four ethnic Uzbeks and one Kyrgyz.

At the same time, the Kyrgyz side issued an arrest warrant for Sattybaev Izzotillo Mashrapovich, born in the Kyrgyz city of Osh, an Uzbek national who underwent terrorist training in Syria.

"He...assisted the suicide bomber in the manufacture of explosive devices, orientation and movement around Bishkek. A few hours before the attack on August 30, Sattybaev fled from southern Osh city to Istanbul in Turkey using a passport of a Tajik citizen," said the report.

Meanwhile, international arrest warrants were issued for two more Kyrgyzs living in Turkey, Sabirov Ilyas Sabirovich and Burhanidin Zhantoraev, who have been identified as possible partners and organizers of the terrorist plot.

The terrorist attack was strongly condemned by the Chinese side and the international community. Endi