About 30 Tibetan Buddhist monks at a monastery in western China have staged an anti-government protest in front of a group of visiting foreign journalists, according to South Korean media.
China's official Xinhua News Agency reported only that a group of monks at the monastery of Labrang in western Gansu province bordering Tibet had interrupted the event, and said the visit resumed soon afterward.
However, the Yonhap news agency said about 30 monks burst in on the carefully controlled Chinese government media tour and called for Tibet's independence from China.
The Associated Press was not invited to participate in the trip, and it was not immediately possible to independently verify Yonhap's report.
The incident followed a similar interruption during a closely scripted government media tour of Lhasa two weeks ago to view damage from deadly anti-government riots that erupted there last month.
Authorities have tightly restricted access to Tibet and Tibetan areas of western China where protests also broke out.
The sometimes violent anti-government demonstrations were the largest and most sustained among Tibetans in almost two decades.