Four people involved in two deadly terrorist attacks in July in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have been sentenced to death, Xinhua reported.

Intermediate people's courts of Hotan and Kashgar on Tuesday respectively found the accused guilty of masterminding and engaging in terrorist organizations, illegally making explosives, murder and arson, said a report published on tianshannet.com, a website based in Xinjiang, on Wednesday.

Two accomplices of them were each sentenced 19 years in jail, said the report.

Xinjiang -- with 41.5 percent of its 21 million population Uygurs, a largely Muslim Chinese ethnic group -- is at China's frontline against separatism, extremism and terrorism.

On July 18, a mob stormed a police station, hurled burning gasoline cylinders into rooms, took hostages, and attacked people indiscriminately with axes and knives. Eighteen people, including 14 attackers, were killed in the clash.

Two separated attacks on July 30 and July 31 in Kashgar left a total of 13 people dead and 44 others injured.

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