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A revenge attack claimed the life of a Tibetan official working for "stability maintenance" office in the region. The official was gunned down in an ambush.
Zhang Wei, 36, was an official under the politics and law committee of Xinlong town, a county in the Garze Tibetan Autonomous prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan province.
A suspect in the criminal act, Xue Jia, 35, mug shot and wanted poster is released to the public. Authorities are offering 500,000 yuan ($80,500) bounty for information that will lead to his capture. Authorities have also warned that Xue Jia, who is still at large may be armed too.
Zhang had led the team to a remote mountain area where they were tasked to prevent a fight among local residents over the harvest of Chinese caterpillar. Zhang and his team spent 40days in the area which had no telecommunications access.
On their way back, they were attacked by gunmen and Zhang was killed in the attack.
Zhang Wei graduated from the Aba Normal school in Sichuan in 2002 and worked in a police station.
He was part of the anti-vice squad before being transferred to the politics and law committee in June 2012.
Local government authorities have sent their condolences to his family.
The government's stability drive ranges from crackdowns on protests against land seizures to internet censorship and muffling the dissent of religious and ethnic minorities.
Simmering ethnic tensions in the region has spurred at least 119 Tibetans to set themselves alight in protests against Chinese rule since 2009, often in heavily Tibetan areas of the provinces of Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai. Most have died.
