Chinese police shot dead another Tibetan protester in the restive Sichuan province, rights groups said Friday, bringing to at least three the number killed in deadly clashes this week. Urgen, a 20-year-old Tibetan, died Thursday in Sichuan's Rangtang county when police fired into a crowd trying to stop them from detaining another man, the US-based International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) and India-based TCHRD said.
It was the third reported deadly clash this week in western Sichuan - which has big populations of ethnic Tibetans, many of whom complain of repression - in the worst unrest in Tibetan-inhabited regions in years. Security forces also fired into two separate crowds of protesters in Luhuo and Seda towns on Monday and Tuesday - also in Sichuan, a province in China's south-west that borders Tibet - killing at least two.
A Rangtang government official surnamed Wu told AFP Friday that there had been no protest. Calls to at least 16 places in Rangtang including restaurants and hotels were either met with no comments or respondents said they had no knowledge of the matter.
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