27 police officers injured in Yunnan
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Nearly 30 police officers were injured in clashes with villagers in China’s southwestern Yunnan Province in the latest incident of unrest over what appeared to be a land dispute.
The violence took place after police traveled to the province’s Jincheng township on Tuesday looking for two people suspected of illegal detention and intentional injury, the Xinhua news agency reported.
As the officers were leaving the area, about 200 residents blocked the highway in the village of Guangji, surrounding 11 officers and three police vehicles and preventing them from leaving.
Violence broke out when police reinforcements arrived and were quickly surrounded.
“Police maintained maximum restraint during the conflict,” Xinhua said, noting that 27 officers were injured, including one who was in critical condition.
The injured officers were hospitalized in the Yunnan provincial capital of Kunming.
Xinhua said 13 officers held were unable to leave the village until yesterday afternoon. It said no injuries among villagers were reported and made no mention of arrests.
The report did not say if the incident was triggered by a land dispute, which often leads to public protest in the rural areas, but it cited the Kunming government as saying authorities would “respect the demands of residents in land deals to protect their legal interests and deal with the aftermath of the incident according to law.”
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