Chinese police have shot dead three people who allegedly attacked a Communist Party office in the restive Xinjiang region on Wednesday, state media said, in the bloodiest such incident in months.
The three "rioters" drove up to a local party office in Moyu County and "detonated (an) explosive device", killing two and injuring three others, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing a statement from the local authorities.
The three assailants were then "shot dead by police", Xinhua added, without specifying whether they were killed on the spot or later in the day.
A previous account had said that four attackers were shot dead after killing one civilian.
The brief report described the assault as a "terrorist attack".
China tends to reserve the "terrorist" label for attacks involving the mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority.
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