A suicide bomb attack on the Chinese embassy in the Kyrgyz capital last week was ordered by Uyghur militants active in Syria and carried out by a member of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), Kyrgyzstan’s state security service said on Tuesday.
The suicide bomber, whose car rammed the gates of the embassy on August 30, was an ethnic Uyghur who held a Tajik passport in the name of Zoir Khalilov, the State Committee for National Security (GKNB) said in a statement.
Three embassy staff suffered minor injuries in the attack and were taken to hospital. China condemned the attack and urged Kyrgyz authorities to quickly investigate.
“The investigation established that the terrorist act was ordered by Uyghur terrorist groups active in Syria and affiliated to the terrorist organization the Nusra Front whose emissaries … financed the terrorist action,” the GKNB said.
Listed as a terrorist organization by the United States and Russia, the Nusra Front has renamed itself Jabhat Fatah al-Sham and said in July it had ended its relationship with al Qaeda.
The attack on the Chinese embassy was coordinated through a native of Kyrgyzstan living in Turkey, the Kyrgyz secret service said.http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1005085.shtml
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