(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Ijing june 12 (qna) - police shot dead five ethnic minority uyghurs and lost one of their own in fresh clashes in china's restive northwestern xinjiang region amid stepped up security checks in an anti-terror clampdown imposed after deadly attacks in the capital according to police.
four of the men were shot in kashgar prefecture's konasheher (in chinese shufu) county in a confrontation triggered when local officials lifted a woman's veil during a house check in her village a week ago (radio free asia) quoted the police there as saying.
the men armed with knives and sticks killed a policeman before they succumbed to gunshots in the june 4 clash while two village officials were injured the local police said.
in a separate incident a week earlier a man was shot dead in neighboring aksu prefecture's awat county while fleeing from authorities pursuing him for alleged involvement in a "social stability" crime police said.
the clashes come amid stepped up house-to-house security checks and mass sentencings announced in xinjiang. (qna)
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