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China Xinjiang blast killed 31 people, 90 injured: Report

Beijing: Thirty-one people were killed and more than 90 injured in an attack on Thursday on a busy street market in the capital of China's volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang, the local government said, the

India TV News Desk Updated on: May 22, 2014 15:47 IST
china xinjiang blast killed 31 people 90 injured report
china xinjiang blast killed 31 people 90 injured report

Beijing: Thirty-one people were killed and more than 90 injured in an attack on Thursday on a busy street market in the capital of China's volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang, the local government said, the bloodiest in a series of violent incidents blamed on radical separatist Muslims.


The Xinjiang regional government said in a statement that the early morning attack in the city of Urumqi was "a serious violent terrorist incident of a particularly vile nature."

The assailants crashed through metal barriers in a pair of SUVs at 7:50am and plowed through crowds of shoppers while setting off explosives, the statement said.

The vehicles then crashed head-on and one of them exploded, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. It quoted an eyewitness as saying there were up to a dozen blasts in all.

It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the attack, but recent violence in the region has been blamed on extremists from Xinjiang's native Turkic Uighur Muslim ethnic group seeking to overthrow Chinese rule in the region.
 
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