Tibetan protest killed 8 in China
Tibetan fight with Police killed at least 8 & injured an official in unrest at a monastery in southwestern China. Police fired on a protesters after some monks at the Tongkor monastery in Donggu township, an ethnically Tibetan area of western Sichuan province, were detained by police following a search for images of the Dalai Lama.
The monastery in Ganzi (Garze) Prefecture is home to 350 monks. A news agency has reported on saturday that an official was attacked & seriously wounded in a riot on Friday.
They said in their statement, “Police were forced to fire warning shots & put down the violence, since local officials & people were in great danger”.
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