On August 4th, four days before the start of the games, 16 policemen were killed in Kashgar in Xinjiang by two men suspected by the authorities of being Muslim separatists.

• 8月4日，据奥运会开幕还有4天，16名警察在新疆的喀什葛尔遇害，警方怀疑这起事件是由两名穆斯林分裂组织的男子所为。