In this June 18, 2008 file photo, a Chinese paramilitary officer keeps watch over spectators and journalists at Aitigar Square during the Olympic torch relay in Kashgar, Xinjiang province, China. Two men rammed a dump truck into a group of jogging policemen and then tossed grenades into their barracks Monday, Aug. 4, 2008, killing 16 officers and wounding others in Kashgar in the China's restive Central Asian border province, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
From Yahoo News/AP:
BEIJING - Two men rammed a dump truck into a group of jogging policemen and then tossed explosives into their barracks Monday, killing 16 officers in a restive Chinese province bordering Central Asia, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
The attack in Xinjiang province came just four days before the start of the Beijing Olympics — an event that has put security forces nationwide on alert and that at least one militant Muslim group has vowed to disrupt. Xinhua, citing local police, called it a "suspected terrorist attack."
Meanwhile, about 20 people angry about being evicted from their homes in central Beijing demonstrated Monday not far from Tiananmen Square, saying the Olympics should not curb their legal rights.
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My Comment: Days before the Olympics are to start .... this happens. Many Chinese security officials are not going to sleep for the next three weeks.
On a side note, the reporting of this attack indicates how open Chinese society is now becoming. Ten years ago we would never have heard about this news event.
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