On 28 August 2008, a group of policemen were attacked by six to seven attackers with knives in the town of Qizilboy in Peyzawat county, resulting in the death two ethnic Uyghur police officers and at least two other policemen were critically injured. According to the deputy Peyzawat county police chief, Omerjan, the police officers who are all ethnic Uyghurs who were searching a cornfield following a tip that a woman suspected of aiding assailants in the Yamanya attack was hiding there.[13]