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Article: Truck, Grenade Attack in China Kills 16 Policemen
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- The Washington Post
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- August 4, 2008
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Two assailants crashed a dump truck into a paramilitary police
station in the restive Xinjiang region Monday and tossed out two
grenades, killing 16 policemen and wounding 16 others in an apparent
terrorist attack, the official New China News Agency reported.
Witnesses said the two explosions boomed out about 8 a.m. in the
heart of Kashgar, an oasis town on the route of the ancient Silk
Road more than 2,000 miles west of Beijing and near the Chinese
borders with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
The region's overwhelmingly Muslim ethnic Uighur population has
long chafed under Han Chinese rule. According to Chinese security
officials, Uighur extremists have plotted to carry out terrorist
strikes ...