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| Two Chinese officers dead in clash with Uighurs |
| 2008-08-29 |
| 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 police officers dead and seven more wounded, authorities and an activist said yesterday. The conflict in the predominantly Muslim region ignited Wednesday in a village in Jiashi County, but it was not immediately clear what caused it or if any Uighurs were injured. Activist Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Germany-based World Uighur Congress, said witnesses heard "fierce gunfire" but did not give any details. A woman at the emergency centre of the No. 1 People's Hospital in Kashgar, about 100 km west of Jiashi, said seven 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. 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. |
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