POLICE IN WESTERN CHINA KILL 5 SUSPECTED MILITANTS AFTER BOMBING ATTACK
Jim Yardley
The New York Times, August 10, 2008
BEIJING — Five people were killed early Sunday morning after a violent confrontation in western China’s tense Xinjiang region in which the police fired on assailants who had attacked a police station with homemade bombs, state media reported.
The violence, coinciding with the first weekend of the Beijing Olympics, comes amid a police crackdown in Xinjiang. The authorities say Uighur militants in the region pose a potential security threat to the Games. Last week the authorities said two Uighur militants attacked a police station in the Xinjiang city of Kashgar, killing 16 paramilitary police and wounding 16 others.
The blasts that happened Sunday took place in Kuqa County in a succession of explosions between 3:20 a.m. and 4 a.m., according to Xinhua, China’s official news agency. Witnesses told Xinhua of seeing “flashes of fire” and also of hearing “sporadic gunshots” after the explosions.
Xinhua said that a group of “criminals” held a drive-by attack against a public security office in Kuqa and another building, tossing homemade explosives that destroyed two police cars. Initial accounts indicated that two officers were killed, though later accounts suggested that two officers were wounded. Officers shot dead five of the assailants.
The police were continuing to search for suspects in Kuqa, a city of about 400,000 people that is located in the southern part of Xinjiang.
Jim Yardley
The New York Times, August 10, 2008
BEIJING — Five people were killed early Sunday morning after a violent confrontation in western China’s tense Xinjiang region in which the police fired on assailants who had attacked a police station with homemade bombs, state media reported.
The violence, coinciding with the first weekend of the Beijing Olympics, comes amid a police crackdown in Xinjiang. The authorities say Uighur militants in the region pose a potential security threat to the Games. Last week the authorities said two Uighur militants attacked a police station in the Xinjiang city of Kashgar, killing 16 paramilitary police and wounding 16 others.
The blasts that happened Sunday took place in Kuqa County in a succession of explosions between 3:20 a.m. and 4 a.m., according to Xinhua, China’s official news agency. Witnesses told Xinhua of seeing “flashes of fire” and also of hearing “sporadic gunshots” after the explosions.
Xinhua said that a group of “criminals” held a drive-by attack against a public security office in Kuqa and another building, tossing homemade explosives that destroyed two police cars. Initial accounts indicated that two officers were killed, though later accounts suggested that two officers were wounded. Officers shot dead five of the assailants.
The police were continuing to search for suspects in Kuqa, a city of about 400,000 people that is located in the southern part of Xinjiang.
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