Paramilitary police have been deployed in a town in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang after a clash that left eight people dead, state media said.
Police shot dead three “terrorists” wielding knives who had killed five people and wounded five others in the town of Pishan on Tuesday, said the website of the Hotan regional government, in southern Xinjiang, on Wednesday.
Beijing blames attacks in Xinjiang, on the frontier with Central Asia, on terrorism and separatists among the Uighurs, a Muslim Turkic people native to the region. Uighurs often say the unrest is in response to Chinese policies, including restrictions on religion, Uighur education and dress, as well as disputes over land, water and employment.
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