China police kill five Muslim Uighurs
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Chinese police have killed five Muslim Uighurs in the country's far northwest, who were allegedly planning to wage "holy war" against the nation's majority Han population.
The official Xinhua news agency says the five were killed on Tuesday, when police raided their hide-out in the Muslim-populated Xinjiang region.
There were 15 people, all Uighurs, at the hide-out, and all had reportedly been wielding knives when police conducted the raid.
Chinese police say they have foiled at least two Xinjiang-based plots this year to launch attacks during the Beijing Games.
