Chinese Embassy In Kyrgyzstan Car Bombed, Six Injured

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A suicide bomber drove a Mitsubishi Delica car filled with explosives through the gate of the Chinese Embassy in the Kyrgyzstan capital Bishkek on Tuesday.

He later detonated himself, blowing out the windows and injuring three officials at the embassy.

Six people were injured and suffered non-life-threatening wounds from shrapnel and shards of glass.

The explosion happened in the center of the Embassy grounds at around 9:30 a.m. and close to the Chinese ambassador’s office, a day prior to when the nation of Kyrgyzstan marks it’s Independence day.

Social media was flooded with images of smoke pouring out of the embassy court yard.

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Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying condemned the attack calling it “appalling and an extreme violent act.”

“China is appalled and strongly condemns the violent act.”
~Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

She added that China has launched an investigation into the incident and has demanded that the authorities investigate who was responsible and to harshly punish the perpetrators,
ending her speech saying “China would resolutely strike against all forms of terrorism and protect the safety of its people and government organizations overseas.”

“Authorities take all necessary measures to ensure the safety of Chinese institutions and personnel in Kyrgyzstan, launch a thorough investigation to find out the truth of the incident and harshly punish the perpetrators”
~~Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, said.

Although officials have not called the incident a terrorist attack, according to RT a TASS source in the Interior Ministry said the explosive was planted inside the attacker’s car. The source, however, said that it is too early to call the incident a “terrorist attack.”

In June, a Turkish official said that one of the three suspected Islamic State suicide bombers involved in the deadly attack on Istanbul’s main airport was a Kyrgyzstan national.

Additionally, an anti-Chinese radical militant separatist group made up of ethnic Uighurs, mainly Muslim people living in China’s Xinjiang region, are believed to be operating in Central Asia. The Uighurs are waging a separatist insurgency against China near the border between China and Kyrgyzstan. This group is believed to be responsible for 2015’s Bangkok explosion that left 18 dead when a suicide bomber left a backpack in the crowd. They are also responsible for the 2014 car bomb attack in Urumqi a city in the north-western region of Xinjiang that left 31 dead and 91 injured when Uighurs ploughed through the crowd then set off explosives.

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