China Acknowledges Tibetan Death in Unrest

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.

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