11 killed in 2 attacks in troubled NW China (AP)

August 1, 2011 | BUSINESS

FILE - In this Friday, July 10, 2009 file photo, a statue of former leader Mao Zedong is seen as an Uighur man looks on in Kashgar, China. Two knife-wielding men hijacked a truck in China's restive northwest, then rammed the vehicle into a crowd and got out to attack the pedestrians, sparking clashes, a police official said Sunday, July 31, 2011. The attack happened in the Silk Road city of Kashgar in northwest Xinjiang, a region rocked by ethnic violence in recent years. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel, File)AP – Police shot dead four people Sunday in China’s far northwest, bringing to 11 the death toll in weekend violence in one of the country’s most troubled ethnic regions.


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