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| A muslim woman faces off against Chinese police in Uighar province. (Reuters) |
A police employee says Chinese Muslims have fought with officers who demolished a mosque in China's northwest.
The employee who answered the phone at the police station in Hexi, a town in the Ningxia region, said the crowd tried to stop the demolition Friday night. She said about 80 people were detained and the mosque was demolished.
A Hong Kong monitoring group, the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, said authorities demolished the mosque because it was declared an illegal religious place.
The Information Centre cited a villager as saying two people died in the violence, but said it could not confirm that. The police employee, who refused to give her name, said there were no deaths. -TIE-
