More than 90 Tibetan monks held after 'riot'

Chinese police detained more than 90 Tibetan monks after at least 100 people attacked a police station in the town of Rabgya, state media have said. The protests take place 50 years after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in the province.More than 90 monks have been detained in a Tibetan-inhabited town of northwest China after at least 100 people attacked a police station, state media said Sunday. The riot on Saturday in Rabgya, in the mountains of Qinghai province, is the first reported major protest in China's Tibetan areas since the 50th anniversary of a failed uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet on March 10. Chinese authorities have launched a massive security clampdown in recent weeks to quell possible unrest surrounding the anniversary of the uprising, which led the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, to flee into exile."Police have arrested six participants in the attack. Eighty-nine surrendered to police," the official Xinhua news agency reported. "All but two of the 95 were monks in the Rabgya monastery," the report said. It was not immediately clear how many people were involved in the riot. Xinhua put the figure at "more than 100" and then "several hundred" in its report.According to the news agency, nearly 100 monks from the monastery took part. Protesters assaulted policemen and government staff, with some slightly injured, the report said.