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China: 2 Chinese policemen dead, 7 more wounded in post Olympics
Fri. August 29, 2008 12:42 am.- By Bonny Apunyu. -
(SomaliNet) Chinese authorities and an activist said on Thursday that the first outbreak of violence in China's western region of Xinjiang since a pair of high-profile attacks during the Olympics has left two Chinese policemen dead and seven more wounded.
Media reports said the conflict in the predominantly Muslim region ignited on Wednesday in a village in Jiashi County, but it was not immediately clear what caused it or if any Uighurs were injured.
According to activist Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Germany-based World Uighur Congress, witnesses heard "fierce gunfire" but did not give any details.
A woman at the emergency center of the No. 1 People's Hospital in Kashgar, about 100km west of Jiashi, said six police officers were being treated at the facility, including one for stab wounds. She refused to give her name as is common among Chinese officials.
Mu'erbiya, an official from Jiashi County's Communist Party propaganda office, said two police officers had died and an investigation was under way. Mu'erbiya, like some Uighurs, uses only one name.
A public security official said eight Uighurs - seven men and one woman - were involved. One man had been captured, but the others were still at large, said the official, who refused to give his name.-Reuters
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