Reports: Chinese police kill Tibetan, wound 2

Tibetan delegates attend a Tibetan province delegation meeting held inside the Great Hall of the People as part of the National People's Congress in Beijing, China, Wednesday, March 7, 2012. Chinese officials sought Wednesday to discredit Tibetans who have set themselves on fire to protest China's rule over their region, calling them outcasts, criminals and mentally ill people manipulated by the exiled Dalai Lama. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)?(Andy Wong)

BEIJING ? An activist group and a U.S. broadcaster say police in western China fatally shot a Tibetan and wounded two others amid protests against Chinese rule.

London-based Free Tibet and Radio Free Asia said Saturday that the three men were shot Tuesday by police who were looking for or had detained another man in connection with a Jan. 25 incident in which protesters tore down a Chinese flag at a police station in a Tibetan area of Qinghai province.

Employees who answered the phone at local government and police offices in Pema county and the prefecture where it is located, Golog, said they had not heard of the shootings.

More than two dozen Tibetans have set themselves on fire over the past year to protest what activists say is Beijing's suppression of Tibetan religion and culture.

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