While we’re posting maps, I figured I’d also post for our readers the exact location of the dump truck/knife/homemade explosives attack on the jogging police that occured on August 4th. Thanks to this website I found via Baidu pinpointing the hotel on the thankfully short Seman Road and mostly thanks to the youtube video below filming the attack area that I found via The Shanghaiist, I was able to dorkily find the exact locations of the attacks in Google Maps. Here it is:
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The marker on the left is the Frontier Protection Station that the police were based out of and presumably jogged out of the day of the attack. The marker on the right is placed before the Yiquan Hotel, in front of which the attack occurred.
And here’s the video I saw from the Shanghaiist. Basically, you can watch the video and see the landmark features line-up quite solidly with the location illustrated above – the gated courtyard, the various stores, the apartment building, the long fence with nothing behind it. It’s all there.
So the next time you swing by Kashgar, take a picture. And post a link to it here!
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[...] be seen in the second picture, this location is indeed in front of the Yiquan Hotel (see movie in this post), the place where the attack is said to have occurred, and the utter carnage is quite plain. In the [...]