At least 21 persons, including community workers and police officers, were killed in China’s volatile Xinjiang province in a series of “terrorist bomb attacks,” officials said today.
Confirming reports of incidents of “terrorist violence” which took place yesterday in Bachu county near Kashgar city in the Xinjiang province, Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying, in a media briefing here today, said that 21 persons were killed.
She said the area witnessed a series of bomb attacks in which 21 people were killed including six suspects who were shot dead by the police. Eight suspects have been arrested.
State-run Xinhua news agency said that the dead included 15 community workers and police officers. This is the first major attack here since the new leadership headed by President Xi Jinping took over power last month.
