DTN News - CHINA NEWS: Xinjiang Riots - China Raises Death Toll To 18 in Violence....NSI News Source Info # 2250(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - July 20, 2011: Reported by Chinese National News of even date, the 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.
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.
China on Wednesday raised the death toll to 18 from a clash at a police station in the restive far western region of Xinjiang, saying that 14 "rioters" died along with two policemen and two hostages in the worst violence there in a year.
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