Police urged to learn a lesson from terror attack
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Beijing’s Party chief Guo Jinlong has called for enhanced supervision to prevent the capital from terrorist attacks after a car crash in Tian’anmen Square last week killed five and injured 40 others.
Guo urged Beijing police and security forces to “look for vulnerable links” and “learn a lesson” from the Tian’anmen terrorist attack, the Beijing Daily reported yesterday.
Guo stressed the importance of quick response to emergencies and asked police and security forces to raise their awareness in countering terrorism and violence.
Police have been asked to strengthen security in key areas, enhance their capacity to collect intelligence and take precautions against terrorist attacks, the newspaper reported.
Authorities in downtown districts are required to strengthen urban management, crack down on violations of laws and regulations, and improve management of rented housing, small and medium-sized inns and floating population.
A jeep laden with gasoline crashed into a guardrail of Jinshui Bridge across the moat of the Forbidden City on the north of Tian’anmen Square around noon on October 28. Police said the three people in the jeep died after they set the vehicle on fire with the gasoline inside.
State television said the attack was carried out by a group of eight terrorists who possessed weapons including Tibetan knives and 400 liters of petrol.
China’s top security official Meng Jianzhu has accused the terrorist organization East Turkestan Islamic Movement of supporting the attack. Police have detained five suspects.
According to police, the three occupants of the car were members of the same family: driver Usmen Hasan was accompanied by his mother and his wife. The dead also included a Filipino tourist and a tourist from south China’s Guangdong Province.
Meanwhile, the military chief of Xinjiang was removed from the region’s Party committee.
The Xinjiang Daily said in a brief front page report yesterday that Peng Yong had been removed as a member of Xinjiang’s Communist Party Standing Committee, and would be replaced by Liu Lei, an army veteran with more than a decade’s experience in the region. The newspaper gave no reason for the move.
Peng was appointed commander of the Xinjiang military region in July 2011.
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