Over 40 people were confirmed as having been involved in the Malianjing security checkpoint mob attack in north China on December 6, according to preliminary findings released on Thursday.

A local security checkpoint, in Ejina Banner, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is completely destroyed during an attack by over 100 masked people on Dec. 6, 2015. [Photo: qq.com]

Local police of Jintai County in northwest China's Gansu Province reported that a total of 10 main suspects are now in police custody, and two of them voluntarily surrendered themselves to the police.

The two people who surrendered themselves were the secretary and the director of Shuangwan Village in Jinta County, Gansu Province, a village that is adjacent to the Malianjing security checkpoint in Inner Mongolia.

The Malianjing security checkpoint in Inner Mongolia was attacked at 3:30 pm on Dec. 6, 2015. Chinanews.com reported that 13 police officers were injured and 11 police wagons were destroyed. The security checkpoint was completely demolished.

Chen Tiejun, Deputy Chief of Ejina Banner of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, said that masked mobs, with sticks and stones in their hands, cut off the power supply and destroyed the monitoring facilities after they broke into the checkpoint. The gang also sprayed peppered water on police staff in the checkpoint, in addition to intimidating and beating them.

Chen said the mobs abducted some staff and left them on the Gobi Desert in below freezing temperatures with their hands tied up . Following that, the gangsters returned to the security checkpoint, grabbing phones, cloths and money. As soon as they left the checkpoint, they cut off the communication network and drove two trucks to destroy all the facilities and law enforcement vehicles in the station and nearby police quarters, totaling 5,400 square meters in area.

Secretary of Ejin Banner Meng He, along with all the local leaders of related departments, arrived at the scene immediately and dealt with the emergency.

The case is under further investigation and the search for other people involved is still going on.

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