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Scores Reported Dead in China After Riots
SHANGHAI
-- The official death toll in riots in China's northwestern Xinjiang
region rose sharply Monday, with the government saying that 140 had
been killed in what appears to be one of the deadliest episodes of
unrest in China in decades.
Police
said at least 828 other people were injured in violence that began
Sunday in Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital. Witnesses said the conflicts
pitted security forces against demonstrators, and members of the
region's Turkic-speaking Uighur ethnic group against members of the
country's Han Chinese majority. Many among the predominantly Muslim
Uighurs have chafed at Chinese government rule.
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