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Police kill 8 in Xinjiang terrorist attack
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Eight terrorists armed with knives and explosives were killed Monday during an assault on a police station in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Retion, according to local authorities who have blamed terrorists for a string of deadly incidents in the northwestern region.
The Xinjiang government news portal Tianshan Net said that the group of nine attacked officers and burned police cars in Shache County, which is overseen by the famed Silk Road city of Kashgar.
"At around 6:30am, nine thugs carrying knives attacked a police station in Kashgar's Chache County, throwing explosive devices and setting police cars on fire," the regional government said in a statement on its news website.
"The police took decisive measures, shooting dead eight and capturing one," it added, calling the incident a "violent terrorist attack" which was being investigated.
China's foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang called it a "violent terrorist attack".
"It testifies once again to the anti-society and anti-human nature of the three evil forces, and they have caused great damage to the state, the society and the people," he said at a regular briefing in Beijing.
The "three evil forces" are separatism, religious extremism and terrorism.
Local authorities say that terrorists have been responsible for a series of similar attacks in Xinjiang this yeat, including one in the Turpan area that left 35 people dead in June.
The latest violence came after 16 people, including two police officers, were killed in a clash near the Silk Road city of Kashgar earlier this month, when thugs armed with explosive devices and knives attacked police attempting to detain them.
In late October, police said three terrorists drove a vehicle into crowds of tourists opposite Beijing's Tian'anmen Square, killing two people and injuring 40, before crashing outside the Forbidden City and setting their vehicle ablaze.
All three attackers, a man, his wife and his mother, died.
Police described the assault as terrorism and said separatists backed by the militant East Turkestan Islamic Movement were responsible.
In the worst outbreak of sectarian violence in recent years in China, around 200 people died and more than 1,600 were injured while hundreds were arrested in riots in the Xinjiang regional capital Urumqi in July 2009.
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