After China gives police new guns, spate suspicious shootings have followed

China’s special police take part in anti-terrorist exercise in Shanghai on Aug. 21. China has seen an alarming spate of police shootings, ever since the government removed a decades-long ban on guns four months ago and began issuing firearms to police. (ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)

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By William Wan September 26 at 9:15 PMLUOKAN VILLAGE, China — Invoking the threat of terrorism, Chinese police for the first time in years have started carrying guns and, with little training, using them.

The fatal effects have rippled across the country, reaching even this tiny mountain village.

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