الصين: أعمال عنف في تركستان الشرقية ومقتل مسلمين

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

شهدت مقاطعة "باتشو" في إقليم "شينغيانغ" الصيني - تركستان الشرقية - أحداث عنف بين رجال الأمن والمسلمين؛ حيث سقط 21 قتيلاً بعد أن وردت أنباء عن الاشتباه في وجود 3 أفراد من المنتمين لدعاة الاستقلال عن "الصين" في أحد المنازل؛ مما دفع رجال الشرطة لمهاجمة المنزل.

وقد أدت الاشتباكات التي شهدتها المنطقة - ذات الغالبية المسلمة من الإيجور، وذاتية الإدارة والخاضعة للحكم الصيني - لسقوط العديد من القتلى، واتخاذ رهائن، وانتشار حالة من الفوضى، والتعتيم على تلك المواجهات الدامية؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

يرجى الإشارة إلى المصدر عند نقل الخبر - شبكة الألوكة.

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21 people, including 15 police, killed in Xinjiang clash

Police officers were among the 21 people killed when suspected terrorists fought with police in China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, officials said.

The attacks occurred Tuesday in a town in Bachu County when three community workers reported suspicious individuals and knives in a resident's home, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday. The suspects hiding in the house captured the community workers, officials said.

The BBC reported 15 police and officials were among those killed in the confrontation.

Police officers and community officials were attacked and killed by the suspects, who also killed the three community workers taken hostage, Xinhua said.

Xinhua reported the suspects had set the house on fire.

The incidents come amid ethnic tensions between the Muslim Uighur and Han Chinese communities. In 2009, nearly 200 people, mostly Han Chinese, were killed in rioting.

Xinhua said a preliminary investigation into Tuesday's incident indicated the suspects were terrorists who were plotting violent attacks.

But Dilxat Raxit, a representative for the World Uighur Congress, an umbrella organization for Uighur groups, told the BBC the killing of a young Uighur by Chinese "armed personnel" sparked the attack.