6 killed in new clashes in restive China region

 At least six people died in two clashes between police and ethnic Uighurs, in the latest sign of unrest in China's far western region of Xinjiang, US-based Radio Free Asia said
on Thursday, according to dpa.
Police in southern Xinjiang's Shufu, or Konasheher, county in Kashgar
prefecture opened fire after a group of Uighur men stabbed to death
an officer following a security check last week, the broadcaster's
Uighur-language service reported. Four Uighurs died in the clash.
Another Uighur man was shot dead in an earlier incident as he fled
from police in Awat county in neighbouring Aksu prefecture, it said.