BEIJING - seven people were killed and 28 wounded in Xinjiang in China, the turbulent time of the attackers who carry a knife stabbing the person monitored the crowd, said the Government media, Sunday (7/31/2011), in the latest unrest.
One of the attackers was killed in the violence that erupted Saturday night of many suppliers of food in Kasghar, while others were arrested, said Tianshannet.com, a website managed by local governments.
According to the report, the two attackers hijacked a truck waiting at a red light, killing the driver and the vehicle rammed in the pedestrians on the sidewalk nearby.
Then they got out of the truck and began to stab people are in the blind, killing six people and injured 28 people even before the crowd turn attack and killed an attacker.
Other the aggressor was arrested, said the report.
Kashgar police refused to comment on contacted by AFP.
The attack was the latest attack a riot that hit the Chinese Northwest region of turbulence, in Xinjiang, Uyghur ethnic minorities - especially of Muslims, have been upset against the Government of China.
In early July, more than 20 people were killed in violent clashes with police in the city of Hotan remote.
Government media quoted an official in Xinjiang, which is to say, it is a shock of the attacks of "terrorism" and added that the four people including a police officer was killed when the crowd burned the police station.
However, militant Uighur call an explosion of outrage by citizens of the Uighurs was common and said that the security forces of beating 14 people to death and shot and killed six other people during the riots.
It is not clear if the attackers Saturday is the Uighurs.
Xinjiang has been ruined by violent unrest in recent years, culminating in an attack on members of the Uighur groups Han, which is dominant in the area of the capital Urumqi in July 2009.
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