- China has alleged that members of a religious extremist group were behind the attack on a railway station in the western Xinjiang region that killed 3 and injured many others.
- Xinjiang has been the flashpoint of ethnic tensions between Uighur and majority Han Chinese migrants which has earlier led to riots killing many people.
- The govt identified one of the attackers as a local Uighur, a Turkic group native of the region and alleged him to be previously involved in religious extremism.
- The attack is very similar to the one in which an armed Uighur group attacked a railway station in its South-western province.
- The Chinese govt said that it would deploy a strike-first strategy against terrorist groups to effectively combat violence.
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/religious-extremists-behind-xinjiang-attack/article5967969.ece
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