Police at a train station in the northwestern Chinese city of Xian shot and wounded an ethnic Uighur man who had charged into a ticket line holding a brick, police said on Wednesday, adding the man later died of his injuries.
In a brief statement on its official microblog, the Xian railway police said that at about 6 a.m. a Uighur man holding a brick "charged into" a line of people waiting to buy tickets.
"On duty police quickly got to the scene to stop (him), and after repeated warnings were ignored opened fire and injured (him)," it said.
The man died of his wounds in hospital, police said, adding the situation had already returned to normal at the station.
The statement provided no other details.
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