Beijing: Police killed at least seven Muslims in China’s restive Central Asia, news agencies reported.
The officials said this was an attempt to end a kidnapping by terrorists while rights group termed it as excessive force.
Report said police officers opened fire after they encountered resistance in a Wednesday night raid on a mountain hideout outside Hotan city to free two men kidnapped by ”a violent terrorist group.”
Aside from the seven dead, four people were injured and another four arrested, and while police freed the two hostages, one officer was killed and another injured, said an account on the official website of Xinjiang, the region where the incident took place.
A spokeswoman for the Xinjiang government confirmed the account and identified the kidnappers and their hostages as Uighurs, the indigenous, mainly Muslim ethnic group.
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