RFA’s Uyghur Service reported on May 14, 2014 that three senior Han Chinese officials aged between 38 and 45 were brutally murdered and their bodies dumped in a pond on April 27, the day Chinese President Xi Jinping started his visit to Xinjiang. Two of them had their throats slit and the third was stabbed 31 times. They were among four persons on a fishing trip to a lake in Kargilik county in Kashgar prefecture. The incident was confirmed by Enver Tursun, deputy chief of the police station in Janggilieski town who said that the Regional Police Department Chief  Chen Tingjiang and leaders of the prefectural police department of Kashgar were involved in the operations for 15 days.
A Janggilieski Politics and Law Commission official said the bodies were handed over to the wives of the men the next day. A note posted on the Internet on May 3, and later deleted, claimed that the authorities had ordered the wives of the three Han officials to quickly bury their husbands.