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Police Fire on Tibetans

April 2, 2016;

Police fired on Tibetan villagers after they confronted a group of Chinese Muslims who they accused of stealing livestock to take to a slaughterhouse. Two are feared dead and many injured. Farmers in Horshul village in Serthar county in Kardze looking for between 10 and 30 missing yaks found them loaded onto trucks to be taken to a slaughterhouse. Police intervened in the dispute and fired on the Tibetans.

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