37 civilians, 59 'terrorists' killed in earlier attack in China's Xinjiang region: Xinhua
China attack on a police station and government offices in China's western Xinjiang region earlier this week left 37 civilians and 59 "terrorists" dead, Chinese state media says.
Police had arrested 215 "terrorists" while 13 civilians were also injured in Monday's attack, Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.
The attack occurred in Shache county, or Yarkand in the Uighur language, and was the latest in a series of violent incidents to have affected the vast region in recent months.
News of the clash first emerged late on Tuesday when Xinhua reported that dozens of people had been killed and injured by a knife-wielding gang.
A spokesman for the exile group World Uyghur Congress later said nearly 100 people had been killed or wounded.
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