Police fired warning shots as scores of officers battled to arrest up to 60 fake monks in the south-western Chinese city of Chengdu, police and news reports said on Friday.
The men were selling Buddhist trinkets on streets in Chengdu's Wuzhou district when they beat up two suspicious journalists, who later reported them to police.
The agency said more than 100 police were sent to arrest the men, after more than 20 of the fake monks surrounded and beat up the journalists.
The men all had shaven heads and claimed to be from the famous Shaolin Buddhist temple in the central province of Henan.
They offered to perform Shaolin martial arts for 10 yuan (1.2 dollars) and sold Buddhist amulets for up to 20 yuan (2.4 dollars), the report said.
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