6 Men, Said to Have Attacked the Police, Are Killed in China’s Far West

BEIJING — In the latest outburst of violence in China’s troubled Xinjiang region, security forces shot and killed six men on Monday after they attacked police officers not far from the Silk Road city of Kashgar, a government website reported.

The report, on the Tianshan news portal, said that the police opened fire on a man near the commercial center of Shule County who was wielding an ax while trying to set off explosives. It said another five men, described as “mobsters,” were subsequently shot to death as they, too, attacked the police.

The authorities said the men had explosives “on their bodies,” but they did not provide further details. There were no other casualties reported, said Tianshan, which did not identify those accused of being the assailants.

In a posting on its microblog account, the state-run Xinhua news agency said that the police at the scene had also discovered explosives inside a minivan that was parked nearby.

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