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Riot in China's Xinjiang leaves 16 dead

NNA - Chinese police shot and killed 14 people during a riot near the old Silk Road city of Kashgar in which two policemen were also killed, the regional government said on Monday, in the latest incident of unrest in the far western region, Reuters reported.



Police were attacked by a mob throwing explosive devices and wielding knives on Sunday when they went to arrest "criminal suspects" in a village near Kashgar in Xinjiang province, the government said on its official news portal Tianshan.



"Police responded decisively," the government said in a brief statement, adding that two people had also been detained and that an investigation had been launched.


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