Troops patrolling Tibetan town in northwest China

BEIJING – Armed police patrolled the streets of a Tibetan community in northwest China on Monday, residents said, following reports that six people were arrested after a crowd of hundreds — including monks — attacked a police station.
All was quiet Monday in Ragya, a town in Qinghai province's Golog prefecture, two days after the violence at the police station, where the official Xinhua News Agency said policemen and government staff were assaulted.
Three residents who spoke to The Associated Press by phone said security forces were patrolling the area but gave widely varying estimates of troop levels, ranging from 30 to 500.
"The monastery is quiet and there are no police stationed there," said a man who lives near the ungated Ragya monastery. The monastery was home to a monk who was thought to have committed suicide after being taken into police custody, an incident that set off the violence at the police station.
The resident, surnamed Huang, would not give his full name as is common among many Chinese. He added that 400 to 500 troops began patrolling the city on Saturday after the attack.
Police arrested six people accused of involvement in the attack that included several hundred protesters, Xinhua said, and another 89 people turned themselves in. All but two of those in custody were monks, it said. The status of those taken into custody was unclear Monday.


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