30 Dec 2013

8 shot after police station attacked

8:07 pm on 30 December 2013

Police in China's restive western region of Xinjiang say they have shot dead eight people during an attack on a police station.

The violence comes two weeks after a riot in the region in which 14 people were shot dead by police.

It is the latest in a number of violent incidents in Xinjiang this year which Beijing blames on separatism, the BBC reports.