Man sentenced to death for terrorist attack in Xinjiang
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E-mail Xinhua, March 27, 2012
A court in China's far western Xinjiang region Monday sentenced a man to death for organizing a terrorist attack that left 16 people dead in February.
Abdukerem Mamut was convicted of organizing and leading a terrorist group and committing murder, according to the verdict handed out by the intermediate people's court in Kashgar prefecture.
Mamut spread religion extremism and violent terrorism and formed a terrorist group of nine between last July and February this year, the court found.
The group launched a terrorist attack on innocent pedestrians on Feb. 28 on Xingfu Walking Street in Yecheng county of Kashgar. Fifteen civilians were hacked to death and a further 14 were injured.
Police arrested Abdukerem Mamut at the scene and shot dead eight other terrorists. During the clash, one security guard was killed and four policemen were injured.
Mamut confessed to the crime.
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