Police in Xinjiang on Sunday killed 14 members of a group described by the Foreign Ministry as “terrorists,” South China Morning Post reported, citing state-run Xinhua News Agency. Police near the city of Kashgar were on their way to arrest criminal suspects when a group of assailants attacked them with machetes and explosives, killing two police officers. Police shot and killed 14 people and arrested two. It was the seventh reported attack in Xinjiang this year. In Beijing in October, an SUV burst into flames after the driver drove into a crowd in Tiananmen square, killing three people inside the vehicle and two tourists.
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