China vows to crush East Turkistan terrorists trained in Pak

out to counter the violence and terrorist suspects would be given severe punishment.

For the first time,China has blamed Uygur “militants” trained in Pakistan for the deadly violence.

The authorities classified Sunday’s attack as an act of terrorism and blamed ETIM for engineering the attack,state-run Xinhua news agency said.

Bekri,while visiting the injured in hospitals in Kashghar city,called on Han and Uygur ethnic groups to unite in the face of this tragedy.

About 22 people,including two ETIM suspects,were killed in different incidents since Saturday in which militants armed with knives and daggers attacked Han settlers in Kashghar city,located close to Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir,(PoK).

Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi witnessed massive riots against Hans in 2009,that left almost 200 people dead.

In two violent incidents last weekend,14 civilians and six militants were killed in Kashgar,throwing the city

into panic.

On Sunday,six civilians were killed,and 15 others – including three policemen — were injured after attackers set fire to a restaurant and started randomly killing civilians on a major shopping street.