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Saturday November 16, 2013 Two officers among 11 dead from attack in Xinjiang province, where ethnic Uighur insurgents are challenging Chinese rule A total of 11 people were killed when 9 took part in an assault on a police station in the north-western region of Xinjiang, the local government has said. Assailants used knives and axes, and also injured two police officers(guardian)
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Nine assailants wielding axes and knives were shot dead during an attack on a police station in China's restive Xinjiang region after they killed two police officers, state media reported Sunday.
The assault took place at about 5:30 pm (0930 GMT) on Saturday in the Serikbuya Township of Bachu County in Kashgar Prefecture, the official Xinhua news agency said, quoting local police.
Xinhua said the attackers were armed with knives and axes and that two other police officers were also injured, apart from the two auxiliary officers who died. The agency gave no further details.
But Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the World Uyghur Congress, a Munich-based advocacy group, said the Uighurs were protesting and that armed Chinese personnel were to blame for the violence.He said in an email that besides the deaths, "several tens" of Uighur demonstrators were arrested. "I again call on international society to take emergency measures to stop the Chinese government from directly opening fire to suppress Uighur protesters and depriving them of using legal appeals and defending their rights," he added.
The reported incident comes at a time of heightened tensions within Xinjiang following a fiery attack in Beijing's Tiananmen Square last month that the government blamed on "terrorists" from the province backed by international extremist militants.
Three Xinjiang Uighurs drove their car loaded with petrol canisters into the gate of the Forbidden City on October 28. The attack left two dead besides the three people in the car, and 40 injured, according to Chinese police.
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11 killed in assault on police station in Xinjiang - The Voice of Russia
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Nine Uighurs "armed with knives, swords and sickles," stormed the station's guard post in Bachu county's Serikbuya township near the city of Kashgar on Saturday, police station chief Liu Cheng told Radio Free Asia.The men killed two unarmed auxiliary policemen before attempting to advance on the main office, Liu told the US-funded service.Two police officers were also injured in the attack at about 5:30 pm (0930 GMT,) the official Xinhua news agency reported.Twenty-one people died in clashes between Uighurs and security forces in the same county in April.The incident comes at a time of increased tension in Xinjiang after five people died when a car ploughed into a crowd in Beijing beside the portrait of Mao Zedong at the gate of the Forbidden City near Tiananmen Square on October 28.Some eight million Uighurs make up about 40 per cent of the 21.8 million people in the vast, ethnically divided region of Xinjiang.The Uighurs complain of cultural and religious repression and claim that ethnic Han Chinese migrants enjoy the main benefits of development in the oil-rich but economically backward region.The government has accused some Uighurs of links to terrorist groups in neighbouring Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia.
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11 killed in assault on police station in Xinjiang - The Voice of Russia
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- www.reuters.com/.../us-china-xinjiang-violence-idUSBRE9AG02G2013...
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