Three suspects have been arrested over an arson attack in which five female sales assistants at a clothing shop were burnt to death during the Lhasa riots, said the Lhasa Municipal People's Procuratorate on Monday.
The suspects, themselves also young women, came to the shop named Yishion at 2:30 p.m. on March 14, after other mobs had broke into and looted the shop, said the procuratorate.
One suspect named Ben'gyi, 21, used a lighter to ignite jeans, another suspect, whose name is also Ben'gyi, aged 23, set fire to other clothes and inflammable objects. A 20-year-old Qime Lhazom threw clothes on to the fire, according to the procuratorate.
"We were surrounded by yelling and the noise of windows shattering sometime after 2 p.m.," recalled the victims' colleague Zhoi'ma, the only survivor of the fire.
The young women aged around 20 huddled together, shaking and crying, when the mobs broke in to smash up the shop, Zhoi'ma said."We were too scared to even breath."
When flames spread upstairs, Zhoi'ma was the only one who squeezed through a small gap torn in the shop door by the mob.
"I can't eat. I can't sleep. I see their faces whenever I close my eyes," Zhoi'ma said.
The procuratorate said that they have finished collection of evidence of the suspsects' crime, which include testimonies by the suspects and eyewitnesses and video and audio material.
Source:Xinhua
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