An attack in China's restive Xinjiang province has left at least 15 people dead, according to China's official news agency.
Xinhua reported that the assailants used explosives and knives to attack civilians and that 11 of the dead were attackers.
The Xinjiang province, originally inhabited by the Uyghur, a Turkic people following Islam, has seen violence escalate over recent months, with scores left dead in regular attacks, blamed by Beijing on terrorists, however experts say the violence is also rooted in the social and economic exclusion of Uyghur.
China has systematically settled Han Chinese in the region, in an effort to rebalance the ethnic makeup of the Xinjiang province. On Friday the government announced it would deploy thousands of former soldiers in Xinjiang, to counter the increasing violence.