Four people were detained Aug. 25 for a deadly attack on Chinese military police last week in the far western region of Xinjiang [2], state media reported. In the Aug. 19 attack, a member of the Uighur minority apparently rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a checkpoint at a highway intersection near the city of Aksu, some 400 miles west of the provincial capital Urumqi and 37 miles from China's border with Kyrgyzstan. Six police were killed and 15 injured in the first major terrorist attack in China since 2008. (Reuters [3], Aug. 25; CSM [4], People's Daily [5], Aug. 19)
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