BEIJING -Chinese police said the nine people responsible for a deadly "terrorist attack" in the western region of Xinjiangwere promoting religious extremism, state media reported on Tuesday.
Xinjiang is home to a Turkic-speaking, Muslim people known as Uighurs, some of whom resent what they see as oppressive treatment by the government.
The Xinjiang government saidpolice shot dead eight people on Monday during the attack in Yarkand county close to the old Silk Road city of Kashgar in Xinjiang's south. The violence raised the death toll from clashes there to at least 35 since November.
State news agency Xinhua said late on Monday an initial probe showed the gang, led by Usman Barat and Abdugheni Abdukhadir, had gathered to watch terrorist videos and promote religious extremist ideas since August.
REUTERS
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