Tiananmen crash: China police 'detain suspects'

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Police in China have detained five suspects in connection with Monday's deadly car crash at Beijing's Tiananmen Square, state media report.

Police have described the incident as a "violent terror attack", the Xinhua news agency says, for first time.

All three people in the car had names from the Muslim Uighur minority in the restive western region of Xinjiang.

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