Police shoot dead two Uighurs in China
July 13th, 2009 - 8:41 pm ICT by IANSUrumqi (China), July 13 (Xinhua) Police in China’s restive Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have shot dead two Uighur men in an attempt to stop them killing another.
According to authorities, a police team patrolling in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang province, saw a group of three people trying to kill a passerby.
They fired warning shots to disperse the group, and when these shots were ignored they opened fire, killing two and injuring the third.
An initial investigation found that all four people involved in the incident belonged to the Uighur ethnic group.
The incident came a week after more than 184 people were killed in ethnic riots involving Urumqi’s Uighur and Han Chinese residents.
Though the government has been claiming that normalcy has returned to the city, the incident is an example that the unrest is far from over.
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