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Police in Xinjiang killed eight people who had attacked them using knives and explosives in a stand-off in the early hours of Monday. One further suspect has since been detained.
Yarkant Police Department seen in a photo shared on Sina Weibo.
The group of “violent knife-wielding assailants” attacked the local public security bureau in Yarkant County near Kashgar with bombs at around 6.30am on Monday morning, according to the provincial online news portal Tianshan. The Xinhua news agency referred to the attackers as “terrorists”.
State media have not identified the men. The restive Xinjiang province has seen a series of attacks in recent months by members of the Uygur ethnic minority
Monday’s attack occurred about two hundred kilometres southwest of Kashgar’s Sayibage Township, where 16 people died in another clash between Uygurs and police two weeks ago.
Some 850,000 people live in Yarkant, according to government figures, 96.3 per cent are Uygurs.
Calls to the Yarkant county administration and its police department went unanswered on Monday morning........

VIOLENT ATTACKS THIS YEAR
March 7: downtown Korla: at least four dead
April 23: Selibuya Township, Kashgar: 21 dead, including 15 social workers and police
June 26: Lukqun Township, Shanshan county, in Turpan prefecture: 35 killed, including two police
June 28: Hanairike Township: no official death toll, but locals said several people were killed
August 20: Kargilik County, Kashgar: at least 16 dead, including one police officer
October 28: Tiananmen Square, Beijing: five dead, including two tourists
November 16: Selibuya Township, Kashgar: 11 dead, including two auxiliary police officers
December 15: Shufu County, Kashgar: 16 dead, including two police officers







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