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BEIJING — Five Chinese civilians and two Vietnamese border guards died Friday during a clash between Vietnamese border guards and Chinese citizens who were trying to enter Vietnam illegally, according to official Vietnamese news reports on Friday and Saturday.
The confrontation began after the guards detained 16 Chinese around noon inside a border post with the intention of returning them to the Chinese authorities, the reports said. Some of the detainees grabbed one or more AK-47 assault rifles from the guards and at some point began firing, the reports said.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Friday night on its microblog that a violent episode had taken place on the Vietnamese border but did not give details.
An online report from Vietnam citing the state-run newspaper Tien Phong said hundreds of police officers and border guards surrounded the building during the standoff and urged the Chinese inside to surrender.
Some of the five Chinese who died committed suicide, while the others were shot dead by Vietnamese police officers and border guards, according to anEnglish-language report on the website of Thanh Nien Daily, which is published by the Vietnam National Youth Federation, an official organization. The report also said that three women in the group “armed themselves with knives.” Another report said that some or all of those who killed themselves did so by leaping from the multistory building.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/w...der-guards-and-chinese-migrants-reported.html
The confrontation began after the guards detained 16 Chinese around noon inside a border post with the intention of returning them to the Chinese authorities, the reports said. Some of the detainees grabbed one or more AK-47 assault rifles from the guards and at some point began firing, the reports said.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Friday night on its microblog that a violent episode had taken place on the Vietnamese border but did not give details.
An online report from Vietnam citing the state-run newspaper Tien Phong said hundreds of police officers and border guards surrounded the building during the standoff and urged the Chinese inside to surrender.
Some of the five Chinese who died committed suicide, while the others were shot dead by Vietnamese police officers and border guards, according to anEnglish-language report on the website of Thanh Nien Daily, which is published by the Vietnam National Youth Federation, an official organization. The report also said that three women in the group “armed themselves with knives.” Another report said that some or all of those who killed themselves did so by leaping from the multistory building.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/w...der-guards-and-chinese-migrants-reported.html
