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Renewed violence in west China | Renewed violence in west China |
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Three security staff have been stabbed to death in China's Xinjiang region, the third attack there in eight days. | |
Assailants killed the men at a checkpoint near the city of Kashgar, Chinese state media said. | |
Sixteen police officers were killed in an attack in Kashgar earlier this month, but state media said there was no evidence linking the two attacks. | |
Xinjiang is home to many Muslim Uighurs, some of whom want independence in the region they call East Turkestan. | Xinjiang is home to many Muslim Uighurs, some of whom want independence in the region they call East Turkestan. |
There has been a rise in violent incidents in Xinjiang in recent months, which China has blamed on separatists seeking to disrupt the Olympic Games. | There has been a rise in violent incidents in Xinjiang in recent months, which China has blamed on separatists seeking to disrupt the Olympic Games. |
Suspected Muslim separatists also launched a series of bomb attacks in Kuqa, in southern Xinjiang, on Sunday, which left 11 dead. | |
Arrest report | |
Tuesday's attack happened at a checkpoint about 30 km (18 miles) from the border city of Kashgar. | |
Attackers - it is not clear how many - jumped out of a passing vehicle and stabbed the men to death. Three men died and a fourth was injured, Xinhua news agency said. | |
News of the attack emerged hours after Chinese state media announced that the situation in Kuqa, scene of Sunday's attacks, had returned to normal. Q&A: China and the Uighurs | |
Early on Sunday, a string of explosions took place in supermarkets, hotels and government buildings across the city. | |
One security guard died, two attackers blew themselves up and eight were shot by police, Xinhua said. | |
A Uighur activist has accused Chinese authorities of arresting dozens of people in the wake of the blasts. | |
Dilxat Raxit, of the pro-independence World Uighur Congress, said more than 90 people had been arrested in Kuqa, as well as others in nearby counties. | |
Local people had heard the sound of detainees being beaten and tortured, he said in a statement. | |
He urged the international community to put pressure on China to end "inhumane crimes against ethnic Uighurs". | |
But the Kuqa local government said that Mr Raxit's allegations were untrue. | |
Xinjiang is home to more than eight million Uighurs. | |
China says it is bringing development and prosperity to the region, but activists accuse Beijing of suppressing traditional Uighur culture and religion. |
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