17 officials punished after Shache attacks

Seventeen officials in Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, who have administrative responsibility for a terrorist attack in Shache county and the murder of an imam, have been removed from their posts or received disciplinary actions, Xinjiang's Party committee said on Sunday.

The terrorist attack in Kashgar's Shache county on July 28 claimed 37 lives and injured 13 people. Fifty-nine terrorists were shot dead at the scene and 215 arrested.

He Limin, Party chief of Shache, was removed from his post and Ahat Shayit, head of the county, received a severe warning. The head of the county's public security bureau was also removed from the post.