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| Unidentified assailants have killed 16 policemen in an attack on a border post in China's restive Muslim region of Xinjiang, state media report. | |
| The attackers drove up to the post at Kashgar and threw two grenades, which also wounded 16 members of the border patrol armed police division. | |
| A militant Islamist group from the region recently claimed responsibility for bombings which killed five people. | A militant Islamist group from the region recently claimed responsibility for bombings which killed five people. |
| The group promised attacks on the Olympic Games, due to start on Friday. | |
| In a brief dispatch, China's state news agency said two attackers were arrested in a dump truck at the scene. | |
| They had, it said, used the truck to break into the police post at about 0800 (0000 GMT) on Monday. | |
| Xinjiang is home to the Muslim Uighur people. Uighur separatists have waged a low-level campaign against Chinese rule for decades. |