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A violent attack occurred on Sunday in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, situated to the northwest of China, at the border with India and Pakistan, claiming the lives of 11 people, in what could be construed as an ethnic clash within the great Communist nation.
A bomb triggered a fire in a restaurant, and people were attacked with knives, causing six civilian to be killed and 15 to be injured. 12 of the injured were of Han Chinese ethnicity, according to Chinese state-controlled media.
China immediately said that preliminary reports showed that those who staged the attack were instructed in, and received the weapons from, Pakistan, and that they were being trained in the Pakistani camps of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement.
The Pakistani Foreign Ministry could not be contacted to comment on the allegations made by the Chinese authorities.
The Chinese officials made a statement on Monday in which they argued that the information about the assailants being trained in the Pakistani camp was obtained from questioning of a suspect.

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Four other suspects were killed at the scene, and another died in the hospital from the wounds. Arrest warrants were issued for another two suspects on Monday.
Police offered about $15,000 for information regarding the whereabouts of the suspects, which were identified as two members of the Uighur ethnic minority.
On Saturday, in Kashgar, the capital of the province, nine people were killed and 27 injured in another attack, which the Chinese police has not yet ascribed to any terrorist organization.
Violence in Kashgar are part of a larger escalation of violence in recent weeks in the entire province, where Uighurs are fighting for independence from China, whom they accuse of stripping their nation of the important oil resources, of suppressing religious freedoms, and what is probably most important, of attempting to change the ethnic composition of the region by bringing Han Chinese to settle.
Two weeks ago, Chinese police shot 14 Uighur rioters in Xinjiang, after they attacked a police station, setting it on fire and killing two police officers and two civilians.
The independence movement of the Uighur comes at a time when tensions rise in neighboring parts of China, Tibet and Inner Mongolia.
China considers the Uighur separatists as terrorists linked to al-Qaeda, and has convinced the American authorities to list East Turkestan Islamic Movement as a terrorist organization.

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