From the New York Times:
A gun battle in a rural area of northwest China this week left a police officer and a Tibetan insurgent dead, according to state-run news media.
It was China’s first official admission that any Tibetans had died in the anti-government unrest that began in mid-March.
According to the official Xinhua news agency, the gunfight occurred in Qinghai Province after the police tried to arrest a man who they said had led a group of herders seeking to incite a riot a week after the March 14 disturbances that shook Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
