11 dead in attack on Xinjiang police
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Eleven people were killed in an attack on a police station in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.
Nine attackers and two auxiliary police officers were killed in the incident on Saturday in the Serikbuya township, near the historic Silk Road city of Kashgar, Xinhua said, quoting local police.
The attackers were armed with knives and axes and two other police officers were also injured, according to the news agency.
“The nine mobs were gunned down on the site and local social orders restored to normal,” said the report, which identified one of the attackers as Abula Ahat.
The police station was the same one that was attacked in April in a clash that erupted after local police and community workers discovered suspicious behavior at a nearby home. That attack led to a gang of extremists hacking and burning to death 15 members of the security services, while six of their own were shot dead.
Saturday’s incident follows the deadly crash of a vehicle that burst into flames at Beijing’s Tian’anmen Square last month. The government blamed the incident on terrorists from Xinjiang backed by the terrorist organization East Turkestan Islamic Movement.
A car, carrying three people from Xinjiang and loaded with petrol canisters, crashed into a guardrail of Jinshui Bridge across the moat of the Forbidden City on October 28. The attack left two tourists dead besides the three terrorists in the car, and 40 injured, according to police.
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