Police kill 3 terrorists in Shenyang
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POLICE in northeast China killed three knife-wielding terrorists from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the far west, who attacked officers, local authorities said yesterday.
One other assailant, described as a 28-year-old woman, was injured in the incident in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province, said a notice posted on a verified provincial government social media account.
Shenyang is almost 3,000 kilometers from Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang, which has seen sporadic violence in recent years blamed by on Islamist terrorists.
Fatal attacks outside Xinjiang, but linked to the violence in the region, are rare.
In March 2014, 31 people were knifed to death by separatists from Xinjiang in a mass stabbing at a train station in Kunming in southwest China, with four attackers killed.
All the four attackers in Shenyang were described as terrorists from Xinjiang, with the woman, whose name was given phonetically as Amanguli Maititusong, identified as a Uygur.
There were no other injuries, casualties or “effects on society,” said a police notice on the province’s Sina Weibo account.
Three children who were with the attackers were removed by police, it added.
Violent attacks on police and civilians waged by Islamist separatists have spread in recent years, both in Xinjiang and elsewhere in the country.
Police launched a “strike hard” campaign in the autonomous region just over a year ago after an attack on a train station in Urumqi.
Police have been conducting a drive against terrorism in Shenyang since June 12 and had already arrested 16 people by yesterday when police visited a house where the four attackers were living, the notice said.
The four adults attacked police with knives and blunt objects while “shouting jihadist slogans,” according to the police.
Photos posted on Sina Weibo showed security forces on rooftops with rifles and a man being carried through the streets on a stretcher.
Others showed another man with a deep gash in his cheek and blood on the ground.
More than 200 people died last year in violence either in or traced back to Xinjiang, according to police.
However, the vast majority of incidents are confined to Xinjiang itself.
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