BEIJING Mon Dec 16, 2013 3:46am EST
(Reuters) -
Chinese police shot and killed 14 people during a riot near the old Silk Road
city of Kashgar
in which two policemen were also killed, the local government said on Monday,
the latest unrest in a region that has a substantial Muslim population.
Describing
the incident which happened late on Sunday, Hua Chunying, a spokeswoman for the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stopped short of directly blaming Islamist
militants but said a "violent terror gang" attacked police with
explosives.