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| China police shoot dead seven 'terror suspects' |
| 2011-12-29 |
| POLICE in China's restive Central Asia border area have fatally shot seven members of a Muslim ethnic group in what officials say was an attempt to end a kidnapping. Officials and state media accounts said today that police opened fire after encountering resistance in trying to free two men who had been kidnapped by what officials called "a violent terrorist group". Four others were injured and another four arrested in Wednesday night's raid outside the city of Hotan. The two hostages were freed. The area has been plagued by tensions between China's Han Chinese majority and Uighurs, the indigenous, mainly Muslim group. |
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