Location China-Vietnam border Attack type Shootout | Date 18 April 2014 Deaths 7 | |
Target Vietnamese border guards | ||
On 18 April 2014, a group of 16 Chinese citizens, later identified as ethnic Uyghurs, engaged in a shootout with Vietnamese border guards after seizing their guns as they were being detained to be returned to China. Five Uyghurs and two Vietnamese border guards died in the incident. Ten of the Uyghur perpetrators were men and the rest were women or children.
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2014 China–Vietnam border shootout Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA