Police in China’s Xinjiang province have shot dead six people who they say were trying to detonate a bomb, local media report.<\/p>\n
12 January 2015 Last updated at 03:04 ET<\/p>\n
Police in China’s Xinjiang province have shot dead six people who they say were trying to detonate a bomb, local media report.<\/p>\n
Tianshan Net, the local government news portal, said the incident happened in Shule, in Kashgar prefecture.<\/p>\n
Xinjiang has seen a spate of attacks in recent months, amid tension between its minority Muslim Uighur population and Han Chinese residents.<\/p>\n
Chinese authorities have responded with a large security crackdown.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of people have been arrested and dozens executed, although information about incidents in the region is tightly controlled.<\/p>\n
Beijing blames the violence on Uighur separatists inspired or supported by overseas extremists groups. Activists say China’s policies towards Uighurs are repressive and are fuelling significant resentment.<\/p>\n
In the latest report, Tianshan Net said residents had reported a man carrying a suspicious device. As police approached him the man tried to attack them and to detonate explosives, but was shot dead, it said.<\/p>\n
Five other people were then shot dead as they also tried to detonate the explosives.<\/p>\n
There was no independent confirmation of the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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