China Acknowledges Killing 28 People; Accuses Them of Role in Mine Attack (Published 2015)

BEIJING — The Chinese authorities acknowledged on Friday that they had killed 28 people suspected of taking part in an attack on a coal mine in the country’s turbulent western frontier, several days after news of the killings first emerged. Officials in Xinjiang, a sparsely populated swath of desert and mountains near China’s border with Kazakhstan, said the people were terrorists who had helped o