The State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan has identified the organizers and perpetrators of the terrorist attack on the Chinese embassy in capital Bishkek last week.
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“Four members of the Turkistan Islamic Movement [Party] in Syria worldwide terrorist organization are wanted on charges of involvement in the terrorist attack on the Chinese embassy in Bishkek”, the State Committee for National Security spokesperson told RIA Novosti.
Authorities in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday blamed Uighur jihadists in Syria for masterminding a suicide attack against the Chinese embassy in the Central Asian country.
Listed as a terrorist organisation by the United States and Russian Federation, the Nusra Front has renamed itself Jabhat Fatah al-Sham and said in July it had ended its relationship with al Qaeda. The assailant was killed and five embassy staff were injured.
Kyrgyz officials say a member of an worldwide terrorist group has been “liquidated’ near Bishkek”.
“The investigation established that the terrorist act was ordered by Uighur terrorist groups active in Syria and affiliated to the terrorist organisation the Nusra Front whose emissaries … financed the terrorist action”, the GKNB said.
One of the three suicide bombers who carried out a deadly attack blamed on IS at the worldwide airport in the Turkish city Istanbul in June was reported to be from Kyrgyzstan.
The attacker rammed the western gates of the Chinese Embassy with a vehicle, it said about the first such attack against Chinese missions overseas by ETIM.
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Kyrgyz police also issued an arrest warrant for Sattybaev Izzotillo Mashrapovich, born in the Kyrgyz city of Osh, an Uzbek national who underwent terrorist training in Syria. The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday slammed the terrorists.
