of 16 chinese police killed in terrorist attack days before olympic opening

16 Chinese police killed in border attack days before Olympic opening: 16 Chinese policemen were killed when 2 islamic terrorists attacked their baracks outside the Yijin Hotel in Kashgar city (Xinjiang province).

TWO suspected Islamic terrorists killed 16 Chinese police officers in a surprise attack on their barracks today.
The men drove a dumper truck into a group of officers on their morning exercise jog, then threw explosives before attacking with knives in the troubled Central Asian border region.

The attack in Xinjiang province came just four days before the start of the Olympics which at least one militant muslim group has vowed to disrupt. The attackers struck at 8am, ploughing into the police outside the Yijin Hotel next to their paramilitary border patrol station in Kashgar city.

Fourteen died on the spot and two others en route to a hospital while at least 16 others were wounded.

Police arrested both attackers.

The attack was one of the deadliest and most audacious in recent years in the area where local muslims have waged a rebellion against Chinese rule.

Kashgar, or Kashi in Chinese, is a tourist city that was once an oasis trading centre on the Silk Road caravan routes and lies 80 miles from the border with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan.

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Update: China News ("新疆喀什发生爆炸袭击致武警16死16伤") has posted TV photos.