Terror group 'outside China' planned Xinjiang attack

May 18, 2014 17:34

Members of a terrorist group believed to be hiding out in Pakistan or Afghanistan were behind the attack in April on a railway station in western China that left three people dead and dozens injured, Chinese authorities said on Sunday.

The East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a banned separatist group known to have its top members operating out of cells in Pakistan, had planned the April 30 attack on the railway station in Urumqi, the provincial capital of its western Muslim-majority Xinjiang region, officials said. The ETIM is pushing for independence for Xinjiang's native Uighur ethnic group

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