37 civilians, 59 \\\'terrorists\\\' killed in earlier China attack
Sunday, 3 August 2014
Chinese state media early Sunday said that 37 civilians and 59 ‘terrorists’ had been killed in a terror attack in Xinjiang, home to China's mainly Muslim Uighur minority, earlier in the week. The official Xinhua news agency added that police had arrested 215 ‘terrorists’ while 13 civilians had also been injured in Monday's attack on a police station and government offices. The attack occurred in Shache county, or Yarkand in the Uighur language, in Kashgar prefecture and was the latest in a series of violent incidents to have affected the vast region in recent months. Xinhua said that 35 of the dead civilians were Han Chinese while two were Uighers in its report on Sunday, according to AFP.