China: 3 Security guards killed at checkpoint.

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Three security staff were stabbed to death in an attack Tuesday in northwest China's Xinjiang region, state media reported, the third deadly assault reported there in just over a week.

Assailants jumped off a vehicle passing through a checkpoint about 9 am (0100 GMT), attacking the security officers, the Xinhua news agency reported. It added one other security officer was injured.

Xinhua said the attack happened near Kashgar, a border city where 16 police officers were killed in an attack last week branded by China as a terrorist assault carried out by people wishing independence for Xinjiang.

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