Nine assailants were shot dead on November 16 after they killed two auxiliary police officers while attacking a police station in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local police revealed.

The nine assailants, wielded knives and axes when they attacked the police station in Serikbuya Township in Bachu County of Kashgar Prefecture at around 5:30 p.m.

Two police officers were injured in the attack.

Social order has been restored, police said, without providing further details.