40 terrorists dead, 2 caught in Xinjiang  

警方披露新疆輪臺縣嚴重暴力恐怖襲擊案情況

9月21日17時許，輪臺縣陽霞鎮一少數民族群眾為主的農貿市場、陽霞鎮派出所、鐵熱克巴扎鄉派出所、輪臺縣城一商鋪門口等處相繼遭到爆炸裝置襲擊。案件造成6名群眾死亡，54名群眾受傷。[查看全文]

Forty terrorists were killed and two were captured in Sunday's terror attacks in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, local authority said.

Media outlet ts.cn, a website affiliated with the Xinjiang government, reported Thursday night that the attacks had cost the lives of six civilians and injured another 54 people, including 32 Uyghurs and 22 Hans.

Two police officers and two auxiliary police officers were killed in the attacks.

A series of explosions took place around 5 pm on Sunday in several locations in Xinjiang's Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, including in front of a shop in Luntai county and two police stations in the townships of Yangxia and Terakbazar.

The lead suspect, Mamat Tursun, who was shot dead during the attack, graduated from a vocational school in 2003. It was reported that Tursun had gradually developed extremist thoughts after graduation.

Since 2008, he had refused to dine with his parents or attend his father's funeral because he believed that his parents were not true believers as they both worked for the government. He also refused to attend his younger brother's wedding because his brother applied for a marriage certificate at the civil affairs bureau.

Working in construction, Tursun was reported to have recruited and indoctrinated other terrorists from his coworkers.