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Singapore police shoot dead man near Shangri-La summit Singapore police shoot dead man near Shangri-La summit
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Singaporean police say they have killed one man and detained two others near the Shangri-La hotel. Singapore police say they have killed a man and detained two others near a hotel hosting a top-level international security conference.
Defence ministers and leaders from around the world are attending the Shangri-La Dialogue at the hotel. Defence ministers and leaders from the Asia-Pacific region were at the summit, known as The Shangri-La Dialogue.
Police say that a car was stopped at a vehicle checkpoint, but accelerated after being asked to open the car boot and rammed through police barricades. Police say they opened fire after a car rammed through police barricades.
Police say the incident is under investigation, and they believe the shooting and arrests are drug-related. The summit ended with China defending its controversial policy of land reclamation in the disputed waters of the South China Sea.
Officers opened fire because the car "was endangering the lives of officers", the police statement said, adding that suspected drugs were found on one of those detained. Police say Sunday's shooting is under investigation, but that it appeared to be an isolated incident unrelated to the conference.
Police said the situation was under control, and later announced that roads near the shooting had re-opened. China 'restrained'
Extra security is in place due to the conference, which is attended by senior defence leaders including US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter, who spoke at the summit on Saturday. Extra security had been in place due to the conference, which was attended by senior defence leaders including US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter, who spoke at the summit on Saturday.
Singapore is thought to have one of the lowest crime rates in the world. On Sunday China rebuffed some of Mr Carter's strong criticism on China's land reclamation projects in the South China Sea, which he had said were "out of step" with international rules.
The country has tough anti-drug laws, and has enforced capital punishment in some cases of drug trafficking. Shangri-La Dialogue: Big powers jostle
Tensions rise over China's 'Great Wall of Sand'
The US says that through reclamation China has increased its acreage in the Spratly island group - also wholly or partly claimed by Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei - by 400 times.
The Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese armed forces, Admiral Sun Jianguo, said that China's rights and interests there were "indisputable" but that it was exercising them "with enormous restraint".
He said China's island-building was about helping the region, by improving facilities for weather stations, scientific research, and search-and-rescue among other things.
Despite facing spirited questioning, he gave little ground, reports the BBC's world affairs correspondent Jonathan Marcus - and overall little progress was made at the meeting.
The incident near the hotel on Sunday began when a car was stopped at a vehicle checkpoint, but then accelerated after the passengers were asked to open the car boot.
Officers opened fire because the car "was endangering the lives of officers", the police statement said.
No weapons were found on the three men, but illegal drugs "and an item believed to be a drug-taking utensil" were found on one of those detained, police said.
The hotel and surrounding roads were briefly placed on lockdown.