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China- Kyrgyzstan anti-terror drill in Xinjiang

Xinhua report in Global Times, June 27, 2017 at 17:23:05
China and Kyrgyzstan frontier forces on Tuesday held a joint anti-terrorist exercise in Kizilsu Kirgiz Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in northwest China.

The drill, carried out under the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), was witnessed by representatives from Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, all the SCO member countries.

A total of 700 police officers from the two countries, aided by armored vehicles, were involved in the drill.

Chen Dingwu, head of the border management administration under the Ministry of Public Security and also commander-in-chief of the drill, said the drill featured simulated weapon smuggling by armed terrorists from Kyrgyzstan to China. It tested the joint action ability in checking terrorism in the border region.

There are 15 land ports along a 5,700-km border line in Xinjiang.

Wang Jian, assistant minister of public security, said the drill reflects SCO member countries’ highly consistent stand and resolution in fighting against terrorism, secessionism and extremism. http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1053711.shtml

Three sentenced to imprisonment over Chinese embassy blast in Kyrgyzstan
Xinhua report in Global Times, June 28, 2017
A Kyrgyz court on Tuesday sentenced three defendants to imprisonment who were involved in a terrorist attack at Chinese embassy in Bishkek in 2016.

The Pervomaisky District Court of Bishkek found the three terrorist suspects guilty of crime and sentenced them from 10 to 18 years of imprisonment respectively with confiscation of their property.

The terrorist blast occurred on Aug. 30, 2016, when a suicide bomber rammed the gates of the Chinese embassy in Bishkek with a car. An improvised explosive device inside the car was detonated after the vehicle entered embassy compound.

Two local employees and three Chinese people in the embassy were injured and the embassy buildings were extensively damaged.

The Kyrgyz security committee identified later that the terrorist attack was organized by a terrorist group and then detained five accomplices. http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1053848.shtml

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