Second soldier attacked in southwest China: group

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Source: Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese soldier was stabbed and wounded by an unidentified assailant, a rights groups said on Friday, days after a soldier was shot dead in a nearby city, attacks likely to worry stability-obsessed Beijing.

The attack on the soldier, very rare in itself in China, happened in the southwest province of Sichuan, which neighbors Tibet, a mountain region which this month passed the first anniversary of deadly riots against Chinese rule.

The soldier was stabbed while on guard outside an army camp in Leshan on Thursday, the Hong Kong Information Center for Human Rights & Democracy said in a fax.

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A soldier on guard duty was shot dead and had his gun stolen outside a barracks last week in Chongqing, formerly part of Sichuan and the biggest city in southwestern China.

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