15 killed in China terrorist attack

5 Dariya News

Beijing 29-Nov-2014

Fifteen people were killed and 14 injured in a terrorist attack in Shache county in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, authorities said in a statement Saturday.The terrorists threw explosive devices and attacked civilians with knives at a food street in the county around 1.30 p.m. Friday. Police patrolling nearby killed 11 of them, according to Xinhua.A number of explosive devices, knives and axes were found at the scene.The injured are receiving treatment at local hospitals. Also in Shache, Kashgar prefecture, a gang of terrorists with knives and axes killed 37 civilians in an attack July 28. A local court sentenced 12 of the terrorists to death and 15 others to death with a two-year reprieve in October.