
At least 16 police officers were killed, and 16 more were wounded, after an attack on a border police station in western China on Monday morning, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
A pair of attackers crashed a heavy truck into a group of police officers who were jogging near the station and then threw at least five homemade bombs into a police barracks, setting off an explosion, Xinhua reported. The attackers also hacked some of the police with knives, according to Xinhua.
The incident happened in Kashi, in the Xinjiang Uygher Autonomous Region, which is also known as East Turkistan. Both attackers were arrested.
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