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Christopher Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), said that the law enforcement agency classifies the deadly January 6 Capitol riot by former President Donald Trump&#39;s supporters as domestic terrorism.</p>
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&quot;That attack, that siege, was criminal behavior, plain and simple, and it&#39;s behaviour that we, the FBI, view as domestic terrorism,&quot; Wray said at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency reported.</p>
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Wray said the rioters came from &quot;a variety of backgrounds&quot;.</p>
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&quot;The attackers on January 6 included a number – and the number keeps growing as we build out our investigations – of what we would call militia violent extremism. And we have had some already arrested who we would put in the category of racially motivated violent extremism, white as well,&quot; said Wray.</p>
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So far at least 280 people have been arrested with more than 300 charged in the wake of the January 6 attack which interrupted Congress&#39; electoral vote count of the presidential election. Five people died in the attack, including a Capitol police officer.</p>
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<em>(IANS)</em></p>
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