Dozens of people were killed and injured in a “terrorist attack” in China’s far western Xinjiang region, home to the mainly Muslim Uighur minority, state media reported Tuesday.

“A gang armed with knives and axes attacked a police station and government offices” in Shache county early Monday, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing local police.

“Dozens of Uighur and Han civilians were killed or injured” when some moved to a nearby township, attacking civilians and smashing vehicles, the report said.

“Police officers at the scene shot dead dozens of members of the mob,” it added.

The attack came on the eve of Muslims in China marking the Eid festival at the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.

Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the exile World Uyghur Congress, an exile group, said in an e-mail that more than 20 Uighurs were shot dead by armed authorities while 10 were injured.

A total of 13 Chinese security personnel were killed and injured, he said citing what he described as a local source, and about 67 people were arrested.

Information in Xinjiang is often difficult to verify independently and it is not unusual for there to be a time lag in official media reporting violent incidents, especially when they involve clashes with police.

In a bylined commentary Xinhua said that the attack was intended to “destabilise the region and spread fear and hatred”.

“Police shooting dead of the mobsters was decisive and well justified,” it said.

“The attack is against the spirit of Ramadan, which is about the practice of self-discipline and self-control,” it added. “The rioters were committing blasphemy against Islam, ‘the religion of peace’.”

Beijing commonly blames separatists from Xinjiang for carrying out terror attacks which have grown in scale over the last year and spread outside the restive region.

Among the most shocking incidents was a market attack in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi in which 39 people were killed in May, and a deadly rampage by knife-wielding assailants at a train station at Kunming in China’s southwest in March, which left 29 dead.

The violence has also included a fiery vehicle crash at Tiananmen Square, Beijing’s symbolic heart, in October.

Rights groups accuse China’s government of cultural and religious repression they say fuels unrest in Xinjiang, which borders Central Asia.

The government, however, argues it has boosted economic development in the area and that it upholds minority rights in a country with 56 recognised ethnic groups.

The latest reported violence comes as China has launched a crackdown following the high-profile attacks, making a show of punishing offenders.

Earlier this month courts in Xinjiang sentenced 32 people to prison terms ranging from four years to life for terrorism-related charges, state media reported.

In June, authorities executed 13 people, and sent more than 100 to jail in a public mass sentencing on mostly terrorism-related offences in Xinjiang.

Three people were also sentenced to death for the Tiananmen Square attack.

In early July, government websites said China banned civil servants, students and teachers in Xinjiang region from taking part in Ramadan fasting, leading to condemnation from the World Uyghur Congress.

China’s ruling Communist party is officially atheist, and for years has restricted fasting in the region.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2014/07/29/dozens-killed-and-injured-in-terror-attack-in-chinas-xinjiang/

Why can't these people be peaceful
Why go around causing problem everywhere they are found
Muslim gang armed and attacking a police station and innocent citizens
Sounds like Boko haram

Islam is a cursed religion. Can u imagine they practice terrorism everywhere, they claimed that they were reacting to d mistreatment of muslims in Israel as there reason for terrorism. What is their reason China again?

China will send them back to mecca.

Them think say china go listen to UN if Chinese army begin skin the muslims alive ?

I strongly condemn this attacks in China!

PISSFULL RELIGION

Allah's boys doing what the knows best to do=terrorism, from middle east to Africa to Europe to America & China

RELIGION of PEACE!!!

Can someone/body explain the Meaning of Peace to dis people..

SHM!!!

Islam!!! oh what a pissful religion

I'm now convinced that Islam is a man-conceived legalistic intolerant religion. Christianity is a relationship with God based on God's own work.

Islam and Christianity are philosophically polar opposites.

Islam limits self determination by robbing an individual of personal freedom before God judging unto death those individuals who disagree with its tenets and claims. Christianity thrives when positive volition toward Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior is practiced freely before God and not because of an ever present sword of retribution.

The righteousness of the Muslim is an earned badge of merit and based on human works. The merit lies in the individual. Christianity is a Grace system whereby man enjoys a relationship with God based on the efficacious work of Our Lord. The merit lies in the integrity of God. Righeousness is a gift of faith, and not an earned merit badge, imputed to the believer when positive volition is expressed toward the One and Only Son, a standing not earned or deserved but a testament to the Love of God for all men.

Islam mandates murderous action and barbaric practices against non-believers. Christians pray for the salvation of all men.

Islam practices justified hate. Christianity stand in awe at Love of God.

Islam is directed by arrogant self righteous men who ordain the sexual use of little unbelieving girls and comely women while sending the unbelieving young boys and men to slaughter. Christians abhor and reject slavery.

True for both faiths is a final reckoning before the Judgement Seat of God.
Islam is not content to allow God to judge, and instead will rape a virgin girl in hopes of making her, according to their judgement, unacceptable to God. What sort if vile insanity is this? Christians are content that God is the perfect judge where man is not.

The comparisons as opposites go on and on.

Islam and Christianity are polar opposites and one of them is a lie. They do not serve the same God. As polar opposites one is the work satan, the other the handiwork of God. Behold! A time of reckoning is upon us.

DickDastardly: I strongly condemn this attacks in China!

may God bless u! Those asinines celebrating this attack are the same pple that'l shout muslims are terrorists when we 'retaliate' or react.

caseless: may God bless u! Those asinines celebrating this attack are the same pple that'l shout muslims are terrorists when we 'retaliate' or react.

That was an unprovoked attack on Chinese constituted authority.
Imagine if another religious faithfuls were to take up harm against Saudi authority claiming they are protesting the country's religious intolerance stances, am sure you would have advise those protesters to go practice their religion where ever they come from and stop constituting nuisance to the society they find themselves.

SporaD8: That was an unprovoked attack on Chinese constituted authority.
Imagine if another religious faithfuls were to take up harm against Saudi authority claiming they are protesting the country's religious intolerance stances, am sure you would have advise those protesters to go practice their religion where ever they come from and stop constituting nuisance to the society they find themselves.

u pple always love to deflect frm fact by playing blind to fact. We're talking about china, u brought in what it wl be like if it was in saudi. This are minority chinese(uighur), they've been under opression since time immomerial...go and read about that. Pple like u dnt look for symptoms or d cause, u treat the disease.

caseless: u pple always love to deflect frm fact by playing blind to fact. We're talking about china, u brought in what it wl be like if it was in saudi. This are minority chinese(uighur), they've been under opression since time immomerial...go and read about that. Pple like u dnt look for symptoms or d cause, u treat the disease.

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Muslims will not tolerate other religion in their midst, but will be quick to complAin when others marginalize them. Saudi will not tolerate christians but you want china to tolerate muslims abi?

caseless: may God bless u! Those asinines celebrating this attack are the same pple that'l shout muslims are terrorists when we 'retaliate' or react.

My problem is when you want to retaliate it is always against innocent women and children. Why not take the fight to the chinese police and army?

thewarrior72: Allah's boys doing what the knows best to do=terrorism, from middle east to Africa to Europe to America & China

na so bro. Allah's boys...hahaha