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Violent Clash Between Police and Terrorists
By KTM Metro Reporter
April 24, 2013: a violent clash between suspected terrorists and authorities in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has left 21 people dead including 15 community workers and police officers and six of the suspected terrorists, Xinhua reports from Urumqui quoting local authorities today.
Three community workers discovered suspicious individuals and knives in the home of a local resident. They then reported the situation to their supervisors via phone, but were seized by the suspected terrorists hiding in the house.
Police officers and community officials from the township rushed to the scene, but the suspected terrorists attacked the police and killed, they also killed the three community workers they had seized earlier and burned the house. The attacks came around Tuesday noon in a town of Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, and some 1,200 km southwest of Urumqi, regional capital of Xinjiang.
Other police officers arrived at the scene, and then killed the suspects and took the situation under control.
Two other people from the authorities were also injured in the clash, and eight suspected terrorists were captured. An initial investigation has indicated that the suspects are all terrorists planning on violent attacks. Further investigation into the case is under way, according to Xinhua news.
Chairman of IECM Khil Raj Regmi, and Minister for culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Ram Kumar Shrestha also attended the third anniversary of the Academy of Arts and Theater in Kathmandu yesterday. When these guys would have time to work on elections if they were to attend one event after another?
