Sixteen Chinese police have been killed in a suspected "terrorist plot" on the border of the Xinjiang region in China's westernmost city of Kashi, state media reports.
The attack - just four days before the start of the Olympics - is said
to have occurred just 200 metres away from the Kashi border armed
police division. According to a Xinhua report, two attackers "drove a
tip lorry to hit a team of policemen who were jogging in a regular
morning exercise at about 8am." It adds that "the suspects then got off
the lorry to throw explosives and hack the policemen with knives."
Fourteen policemen were killed on the spot, and two others died on the
way to hospital, according to the police source, who added that the two attackers had been arrested.
Xinhua adds that "the regional public security department said it had
got intelligence that the "East Turkistan Islamic Movement" planned to
make terrorist attacks during 1-8 August, just ahead of the opening of
the Olympic Games in Beijing."
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