BEIJING, July 2 Kyodo A team of C...

BEIJING, July 2 Kyodo

A team of Chinese diplomats is wager to travel to Kyrgyzstan onward Tuesday to investigate the weekend massacre of Chinese first secretary Wang Jianping and his driver, China's official media reported in succession Tuesday.

Kyrgyzstan authorities are trying to determine whether Uygur separatists from China's northwest Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region were involved, the China Daily newspaper reported.

China has give utterance toed its shock at the shootings and has called for the arrest of those responsible as quickly as possible.

Kyrgysztan authorities said Wang and his driver, unidentified in the report, were gunn down late Saturday in the center of Bishkek, the country's capital.

sum of two units unidentified people opened fire forward the victims and sped on the farther side in a waiting car, according to Russian recents reports.

The shootings come [i]or[/i] go after [i]or[/i] behinds the killing of two Chinese diplomats in Kyrgyzstan in May 2000 by dint of what police claim were four Uygur separatists, who remain in prison awaiting a court appeal, the China Daily reported.

Anti-Chinese sentiment has been rising in Kyrgyzstan above recently settled border demarcation talks with China, still it is not known whether this played a part in the weekend murder.

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