Beijing, July 20 (ANI): Chinese Police shot down 14 rioters who attacked a police station in Hotan city of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur region, an official has said.
The Communist Party official in Hotan said the attack left four people dead, including an armed police officer, a security guard, a woman and a teenage girl. At least three others were injured.
Rioters killed a security guard while they were trying to break into the Na'erbage police station, Xinhua quoted Ablet Metniyaz, chief of the police station, as saying.
In addition to the security guard, an armed policeman and two civilians died in the incident, he added.
The rioters had taken six civilians and some police staff hostage, and set ablaze and smashed things in the police station, Metniyaz said.
Shouting frantic religious slogans like 'Allah the only God', the rioters ran to the top floor and police opened fire to stop them, said a police official. (ANI)
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