Chinese police shot dead one man and injured another during an apparent protest at a construction site in central China, police said yesterday.
About a dozen people on Saturday “gathered at a construction site in the city and blocked construction vehicles amid disputes,” said police in the city of Luoyang.
Officers killed a man after the some of the group — who were not carrying firearms — “assaulted the police,” and attempted to grab their weapons, they said, adding that two warning shots had been fired. Another man was injured and is in hospital.
The reason for the dispute was not given.
Chinese farmers often protest outside building sites attempting to win compensation for seized land, which local governments sell to developers as a source of income.
Regular police in major Chinese cities last year began patrolling with guns for the first time in response to a deadly mass knifing blamed on separatists from the northwestern region of Xinjiang.
State media has reported a number of fatal shootings by police since the policy was enacted.
Officers in the city of Xian last month shot dead a man who allegedly attacked several people at a train station with a concrete brick.
In May, the shooting of a man at a train station in northeast China prompted a media outcry about the apparent use of excessive force by police.
State media later released footage showing the man brawling with a police officer before being shot.
Gun violence is rare in China, where the government tightly restricts ownership of firearms.
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