Three security staff have been stabbed to death in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, state media report.

The assailant killed the men at a checkpoint near the city of Kashgar, according to Xinhua news agency.

Sixteen police officers were killed in an attack in Kashgar earlier this month, but Xinhua said there was no evidence linking the two attacks.

Xinjiang is home to many Muslim Uighurs, some of whom want independence in the region they call East Turkestan.

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Suspected Muslim separatists also launched a series of bomb attacks in Kuqa, in southern Xinjiang, on Sunday. Eleven people were killed in the blasts and a subsequent shootout with police.

(BBC)

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