A “terror attack” struck a county in China’s restive region of Xinjiang on Wednesday, local authorities said to scmp.com, killing five people including the four attackers.
A car carrying the attackers crashed into the yard of the office building of the local Communist Party committee in Karakax county at 4:50pm, and a home-made explosive device was ignited, according to the news portal of the Xinjiang government.
Police shot and killed the four attackers, while one other person was killed and three others were injured, the report said.
Social order had been restored, it added, without identifying the attackers, but China blames the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM).
Beijing has blamed Muslim Uygur separatists in the past for staging violent attacks in Xinjiang.
