Egypt deplores terrorist attack in China

Egypt strongly condemned Saturday terrorist attack which targeted a police station in Xinjiang autonomous region in northwest China on Monday, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The statement also expressed the country's sympathy with victims of the terrorist attack, denouncing all such similar acts by extremist groups that have targeted Chinese governmental institutions recently. The statement underscored Egypt's solidarity with the government and people of China in their effort to fight terrorism. Police in China's restive far western region of Xinjiang said eight attackers were shot dead during an assault on a police station, raising the death toll from violent clashes in the province to at least 35 since November. Authorities also said one of the nine attackers was captured in Monday's pre-dawn attack.