Chinese police kill 2 suspects in extremist attack

Police in far western China shot dead two suspects sought for their alleged involvement in a deadly attack blamed on Muslim extremists trained in Pakistan, the government said.The pair, identified as 29-year-old Memtieli Tiliwaldi and 34-year-old Turson Hasan, were discovered late Monday hiding in corn fields in a suburb of the Silk Road city of Kashgar, where a pair of weekend attacks killed a total of 20 people, according to a notice posted on the Xinjiang regional government website.Police had issued arrest warrants and a reward of 100,000 yuan ($15,400) for information leading to their arrests.Authorities blamed militants trained in weapons and bomb making at camps in Pakistan run by the East Turkistan Islamic movement for Sunday’s attack that left 11 dead, including seven suspected assailants. China says the group is allied with al-Qaida.The Kashgar government said a “group of armed terrorists” had stormed a restaurant and killed the owner and a waiter before setting fire to the building. The suspects then ran out into the street and stabbed civilians at random, killing another four people and wounding 12, the city said. Police fired at the suspects, killing four on the scene while a fifth died later in a hospital.