Two sentenced to death in China for pre-Games attack

A CHINESE court yesterday sentenced two people to death for what it said was an attempt to sabotage the Beijing Olympics with an attack in the far-west region of Xinjiang that killed 17 police four days before the Games.

The Xinhua News Agency said the sentences were handed down by the Kashgar Intermediate People’s Court.

The August 4 attack took place in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar near the border with Afghanistan and Pakistan.