China says dozens killed in Xinjiang attack

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Dozens of people were killed and injured in an attack in China's far western Xinjiang region, home to the mainly Muslim Uyghur minority, state media has reported.
Xinhua news agency reported on Tueday that men armed with knives attacked a police station and government offices in Shache county early on Monday.
Xinhua reported police as saying that dozens of Uyghur and Han civilians were killed or injured in a "premeditated terrorism attack".
"Police officers at the scene shot dead dozens of members of the mob," the report added.
Police officers at the scene shot dead dozens of members of the mob.
Greg Fay, a project manager of the Washington-based Uyghur Human Rights Project, said it was difficult to confirm Xinhua's version of events, and that the Chinese media had "nearly total control of the narrative" from the region.
"This shoot-to-kill policy has yet again been adopted in this most recent anti-terrorist campaign," Fay said. "But we don't really know what happened."
The incident on Monday happened during Eid marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which this year had been "extremely restricted" in Xinjiang, he added.  

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