Death reports as Chinese police open fire on monks and nuns
Hundreds of monks, nuns and local Tibetans who tried to march on a local
government office in western China to demand the return of the Dalai Lama
have been turned back by paramilitary police who opened fire to disperse the
crowd.
China says it has acted with the utmost restraint in response to the unrest.
It said paramilitary had opened fire on protesters in Aba, a nearby district
of Sichuan province, last week, wounding four people. Tibetans say several
people were killed in the shooting.
