New | Police apologise for evicting innocent Uygur man after Kunming terror attack
Police in a city in Yunnan province where a deadly terror attack in Kunming left 29 civilians killed over the weekend have publicly apologised for evicting a young Uygur man following the massacre.
The Uygur resident in the city of Dali, identified only by the name Abdul, had drawn an outpouring of sympathy after it was revealed he was ordered by local police to leave the city after his previous landlord refused to extend his lease in the wake of the bloodshed by eight Uygur terrorists.
Abdul had worked and lived for over eight years in Dali, about 270 kilometres west of the provincial capital of Kunming, where the Saturday attack took place.
“Dali police would like to apologise to the person involved and to all members of the online community,” read a statement issued on the official blog of the Dali police bureau.
Abdul had resumed his normal life in the city, it added. The blogger who first revealed the police’s misconduct confirmed the authority’s account.
