KYRGYZSTAN authorities said yesterday that they have identified the organizers and perpetrators of the terrorist attack on the Chinese Embassy in their capital Bishkek last week.

    The press service for the Kyrgyz State Committee for National Security said in an announcement that the attack Aug. 30 was organized by Uygur terrorist groups active in Syria and affiliated with Jabhat al-Nusra.

    The task of organizing the attack was given by one of al-Nusra’s emissaries, which also provided financial support for the terrorist act.

    The committee added that the suicide bomber was a member of the terrorist organization — the East Turkistan Islamic Movement.

    “This is a member of East Turkistan Islamic Movement, a terrorist organization active in Syria, a Uygur named Zoir Khalilov, who had a passport from Tajikistan,” said the committee.

    It specified that the attacker rammed the western gates of the Chinese embassy with a car. An improvised explosive device inside the car detonated after the vehicle entered embassy grounds.

    The explosion caused extensive damage to embassy buildings and facilities, and the lone assailant was instantly killed. Two Kyrgyz employees of the embassy and three Chinese people were injured.

    The Kyrgyz security committee has detained five accomplices of the terrorist act, who are natives of Kyrgyzstan’s Osh and Jalal-Abad regions, four ethnic Uzbeks and one Kyrgyz.

    At the same time, the Kyrgyz side issued an arrest warrant for Sattybaev Izzotillo Mashrapovich, an Uzbek national who was born in the Kyrgyz city of Osh and underwent terrorist training in Syria.

    (Xinhua)