As police officers apprehended the suspect, he attacked them with an axe and tried to detonate an explosive device, which was disguised as a parcel. The suspect was shot dead by policemen.
While policemen were dealing with the suspect, five more people with explosive devices attacked the law enforcers, but were shot dead as well.
There were no casualties reported neither among the policemen nor civilians.
The country’s volatile Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is populated by Uyghur Muslims and the titular Chinese nation of Han. Militants from the Islamic East Turkestan Movement stand for the region’s secession from China and were behind a series of terrorist attacks in the region targeting law enforcers and civilians.
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