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| BEIJING — Law enforcement officials in the western region of Xinjiang on Saturday identified five men they said were responsible for an attack on an outdoor vegetable market on Thursday that killed 43 people and injured more than 90, many of them elderly shoppers. | |
| The authorities said four of the men were killed when the two vehicles they used to mount the attack exploded in Urumqi, the regional capital. They were identified through DNA analysis. The fifth suspect was captured Thursday night after escaping to a town about 150 miles south of the city, the police said. They have not said whether they are looking for more suspects. | The authorities said four of the men were killed when the two vehicles they used to mount the attack exploded in Urumqi, the regional capital. They were identified through DNA analysis. The fifth suspect was captured Thursday night after escaping to a town about 150 miles south of the city, the police said. They have not said whether they are looking for more suspects. |
| The names of the five men suggested that they were members of the region’s Uighur minority, which has been implicated in an increasing number of violent attacks across the country in recent months, including a bombing at a train station in Urumqi three weeks ago that killed three people, including two of the assailants, and injured 79. | The names of the five men suggested that they were members of the region’s Uighur minority, which has been implicated in an increasing number of violent attacks across the country in recent months, including a bombing at a train station in Urumqi three weeks ago that killed three people, including two of the assailants, and injured 79. |
| The police report issued Saturday said the five men responsible for the market attack were members of a “terrorist gang” from Pishan County, in the predominantly Uighur south of Xinjiang, and had been inspired by overseas jihadists. “They took part in illegal religious activities, watched and listened to terrorist violence video and audio materials,” the national broadcaster, CCTV, said on its website. | The police report issued Saturday said the five men responsible for the market attack were members of a “terrorist gang” from Pishan County, in the predominantly Uighur south of Xinjiang, and had been inspired by overseas jihadists. “They took part in illegal religious activities, watched and listened to terrorist violence video and audio materials,” the national broadcaster, CCTV, said on its website. |
| No group has claimed responsibility for the attack; after previous violent episodes, the government has been quick to blame the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a murky organization said to operate in Pakistan’s lawless tribal belt. | No group has claimed responsibility for the attack; after previous violent episodes, the government has been quick to blame the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a murky organization said to operate in Pakistan’s lawless tribal belt. |
| Some analysts have questioned the role of foreign militants in the mounting violence. Instead, they say, many of the earlier attacks that targeted police stations and government offices were probably the work of disaffected Uighurs seeking independence for Xinjiang, a geopolitically pivotal region that shares a border with several Central Asian nations. | Some analysts have questioned the role of foreign militants in the mounting violence. Instead, they say, many of the earlier attacks that targeted police stations and government offices were probably the work of disaffected Uighurs seeking independence for Xinjiang, a geopolitically pivotal region that shares a border with several Central Asian nations. |
| The attack in Urumqi was among the most sophisticated and lethal to date. According to a bulletin posted online by the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Public Security Bureau, the men formed a terrorist cell late last year, and over subsequent months bought two sports utility vehicles and materials to make the homemade explosive devices, which witnesses say they tossed from their vehicles as they sped through the crowd. Witnesses said many of the devices, which resembled paint cans, failed to detonate. | The attack in Urumqi was among the most sophisticated and lethal to date. According to a bulletin posted online by the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Public Security Bureau, the men formed a terrorist cell late last year, and over subsequent months bought two sports utility vehicles and materials to make the homemade explosive devices, which witnesses say they tossed from their vehicles as they sped through the crowd. Witnesses said many of the devices, which resembled paint cans, failed to detonate. |
| Most of the dead, witnesses said, were struck by the two vehicles as they careened along a street in the Shayibake District, an area largely populated by the city’s ethnic Han majority. | Most of the dead, witnesses said, were struck by the two vehicles as they careened along a street in the Shayibake District, an area largely populated by the city’s ethnic Han majority. |