Police in China have named two suspects linked to the Jeep crash in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, now suspected to be a terrorist attack.  The Jeep crashed through the crowd, killing two people and injuring dozens more, and then burst into flames, killing the three occupants.

“It was no accident.  The SUV vehicle knocked down barricades and rammed into pedestrians.  The three men had no plans to flee from the scene,” an unnamed source told Reuters.

Those three people inside the Jeep haven’t been identified yet.  But the two male suspects are from Xinjiang province in the far Northwest of China, an area where the Muslim majority has been resentful of the influx of Han Chinese from the East.  The men’s name appear to be from the Uyghur ethnic group, and came from a town in which 24 police and civilians and 13 militants were killed in the most recent violence in June.  But clashes have been getting worse for a few years.

Police haven’t revealed if they have a specific reason to link Monday’s crash to the earlier violence, or if the men are connected to previous incidents.  They did ask Beijing hotels to report it if any guests were from the Northwest or were driving vehicles with Xinjiang license plates.