What the records say
- When
- 28 Oct 2013
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 39.90° N, 116.39° E
- Description
- Five people are killed after a car crashes into barriers just outside the Forbidden City in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2013 Tiananmen Square attack.
2013 Tiananmen Square attack
Terrorist attack in Beijing, China
On 28 October 2013, a car ran over pedestrians and crashed in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, in a terrorist suicide attack. Five people died in the incident; three inside the vehicle and two others nearby. Police identified the driver as Usmen Hasan and the two passengers as his wife, Gulkiz Gini, and his mother, Kuwanhan Reyim. An additional 38 people were injured.
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