China police shoot dead two 'terrorists' on Vietnam border
Date April 18, 2015 - 12:03PM
Beijing: Chinese police have shot dead two suspected "terrorists" on the border with Vietnam, part of a group of people trying to sneak out of the country, state media said on Friday.
The group was discovered on Friday morning in Dongxing city, which lies on the other side of Vietnam's border in the southern region of Guangxi, the China News Service said on its official microblog.
Two escaped while they were being detained by police, but were tracked down and shot dead, the report added.
It provided no other details.
Chinese police have previously captured or killed ethnic Uighurs from the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang who have tried to cross into Vietnam.
Reuters
