Eleven people are dead after an attack on
a police station in the Xinjiang province
of northwest China over the weekend.
Among the dead are nine of the attackers and
two police officers who tried to fight them
off.
Another two officers were injured.
(Via Euronews)
The attackers reportedly used knives and axes
during the assault.
They were fatally shot by police.
(Via Next Media Animation)
​This comes seven months after a deadly
clash with police that killed 21 people in
a nearby city.
The Chinese government has said it was a terrorist
attack.
And just last month, five were killed when
three people drove a car into Beijing's busy
Tiananmen Square.
Those in the car died along with two tourists.
(Via Sky News)
China's communist government says it hopes
to better protect against these types of attacks
with the recent establishment of a national
security council.
(Via The Chrisitan Science Monitor)
"Partly, it's likely to be responsible for
handling foreign security issues.
... But the agency is also a response to growing
internal unrest."
(Via Al Jazeera)
China's government has blamed much of this
recent violence on the nation's Muslim Uighur
minority, many of whom reside in the country's
northwest.
No group has been named in connection with
this weekend's attack.
