Chinese police this morning killed six potential suicide bombers in the restive northwestern province of Xinjiang, a spokesman for local authorities said, according to a government website.
In the morning, the police were called to the shopping area of the city of Shul in connection with a report that a man was carrying an explosive device, reported TS News, an information site specializing in news from Xinjiang, where the majority is the Uighur people.
According to reports, that man was shot dead after attacking the policemen with an ax and trying to detonate an explosive device.
Another five people with bombs were killed in a police clearance operation, the site said without going into details.
TS News reported that none of the police officers and passers-by were injured.
An official of the propaganda department of the Shula district confirmed this information, but did not want to say anything more.
The identity of the suspected bombers has not been released.
At least 400 people have died in Xinjiang in the last two years violence that, according to the claims of the Chinese authorities, is the fault of radicals among the Uighurs.
Violent actions in Xinjiang often use explosives from home crafts.
Targets are police stations or, for example, passengers on trains, who they are usually attacked with knives.
Human rights activists claim that the Uyghurs are angry because of the repression the rule of the main Chinese nation Han.
The Chinese authorities responded to the extremist attacks with a one-year ban by the security forces' campaign in Xinjiang.
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