Vehicles travel along Chang'an Avenue as smoke raises in front of a portrait of late Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong after a car accident at Tiananmen Square in Beijing Oct. 28, 2013.
On Oct. 28, an SUV crashed through barricades in central Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and came to rest ablaze beneath an oversized portrait of Chairmain Mao Zedong. Few concrete explanations have emerged about what happened and why, as China’s notorious censorship machine whirred into action, but officials say five people died and 38 were hurt in the incident. Tiananmen Square remains heavily guarded and police are reportedly searching for two ethnic Uighur suspects. (Radicals among the Muslim minority have been fighting a sporadic insurgency against Beijing rule for years.)
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