11 ‘terrorists’ killed in Xinjiang, says China

A total of 15 people died in an ‘attack’ in China’s Xinjiang region on Friday, with eight ‘terrorists’ shot dead by police and three blowing themselves up, having killed four people, authorities said. The incident in Aksu prefecture is the latest violence in the restive region home to mostly Muslim ethnic Uighurs. ‘Eight terrorists were killed by police and three by their own suicide bomb during a terrorist attack Friday afternoon,’ the Xinhua official news agency said, citing police. Riding motorbikes and cars carrying LNG cylinders, the group approached police officers near a park in Wushi county as they prepared to go on patrol, it said. The Tianshan web portal, which is run by the Xinjiang government, said that as well as the 11 attackers, two police and two passersby were killed, and one assailant detained. Photos posted on the site showed a charred police van and jeep. Xinjiang police and information officers reached by phone declined to comment.