Kashgar is located in the northeast part of Kashgar Prefecture.
Location
Near Kashgar, Xinjiang, China
Date
4 August 2008 0800 (0000 GMT) –
Target
Policemen
Attack type
Vehicular, IED and knife attack
Deaths
16
Injured
16
Perpetrators
Kurbanjan Hemit Abdurahman Azat East Turkestan Islamic Movement (suspected)
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Xinjiang conflict
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Xinjiang Wars
Kazakh exodus
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Barin (1990)
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Gulja (1997)
Ürümqi (1997)
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Akto County raid (2007)
Qaraqash County unrest (2008)
Kashgar (2008)
Shaoguan Incident (2009)
Ürümqi (2009)
Xinjiang (2009)
Aksu (2010)
Hotan (2011)
Kashgar (2011)
Pishan (2011)
Yecheng (2012)
Tianjin Airlines Flight 7554
Korla (2013)
Bachu (2013)
Shanshan (2013)
Tiananmen (2013)
Xinhe (2014)
Kunming (2014)
China–Vietnam border (2014)
Ürümqi south railway station (2014)
Ürümqi market (2014)
Yarkant (2014)
Juma Tayir assassination (2014)
Luntai (2014)
Bangkok (2015)
Aksu (2015)
Chinese Embassy in Bishkek (2016)
The 2008 Kashgar attack (Chinese: 2008年喀什袭击事件) occurred on the morning of 4 August 2008, in the city of Kashgar in the Western Chinese province of Xinjiang. According to Chinese government sources, it was a terrorist attack perpetrated by two men with suspected ties to the Uyghur separatist movement. The men reportedly drove a truck into a group of approximately 70 jogging police officers, and proceeded to attack them with grenades and machetes, resulting in the death of sixteen officers.
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