China police shoot dead ethnic Uighur man wielding cement block at train station
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Chinese police say they fatally shot an ethnic Uighur man after he tried to attack travelers at a train station with a cement block.
Railway police in the northern city of Xi'an said a police officer repeatedly warned the man before shooting him as he attacked travelers buying tickets at the city's railway station at about 6 a.m. Wednesday.
A brief message on the force's microblog said the man died in hospital from his injuries and that normal order had been restored at the station.
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Ethnic tensions between the Muslim Uighur minority and China's Han majority have periodically erupted into violence in recent years, leaving hundreds dead. Last year, a group of Uighurs armed with knives killed 31 people at a train station in the southwestern city of Kunming.