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| China Xinjiang attack on police 'leaves 13 dead' | |
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| Thirteen assailants have been killed in an attack on a police station in China's restive western province of Xinjiang, officials say. | |
| The attackers drove a car into the station and set off explosives on Saturday morning, the local government said on its website. | |
| Three police suffered minor injuries but no civilians were hurt, it added. | |
| The Chinese authorities blame Muslim Uighurs from Xinjiang for an increasing number of attacks in the province. | |
| "On the morning of 21 June, a group of thugs drove a car into a police building in Yecheng County, Kashgar province and detonated explosives," the local government website said. | |
| The case was currently under investigation, it added. It provided no further details. | |
| Verifying reports from the Xinjiang region is difficult because the flow of information is tightly controlled. | |
| On Monday, China executed 13 people in the western province of Xinjiang for what it called "terrorist attacks". | |
| The authorities also sentenced three men over a fatal car crash in Beijing last year. |