China reports deadly attack in western city
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Updated at 4:10 p.m. with link to LATimes reporter Mark Magnier’s story, which has details about arrested suspects.
The New China news agency is reporting that 16 policemen were killed and 16 others injured on Monday in a suspected ‘terrorist plot’ in the western Chinese city of Kashi.
The news service reported that the attack occurred in the front of the Yiquan Hotel, which is about 200 meters away from the Kashi border armed police division.
Here is a bit more from New China:
The reporter said the police investigation found that two attackers drove a tip lorry to hit a team of policemen who were jogging to pass the hotel in a regular morning exercise at about 8:00 a.m. The suspects then got off the lorry to throw explosive and hack the policemen with knives, after the vehicle veered to knock on a roadside wire pole, said the Kashi police. The reporter corrected the previous account of the raid of the border armed police division, saying that the attackers did not break into the division station and the explosion took place outside the station. Fourteen policemen were killed on the spot and two others died on the way to hospital, according to the police source.
-- Greg Johnson