China Sentences Three to Death for Tiananmen Attack: State Media

Beijing: Three people were sentenced to death Monday over a deadly suicide car crash last October that killed two people in Beijing's symbolic heart Tiananmen Square, state-run media said.

One other person was given life in prison for the "violent terrorist attack", state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) said. It identified two of the accused with names that sounded Uighur, the largest ethnic group in the violence-racked region of Xinjiang.