At least four dead after Uighurs riot in China's far west - Update
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Beijing - At least four people died and dozens were injured in ethnic clashes between Uighurs and members of China's Han majority in the far western region of Xinjiang, reports said Monday. The violence, which began after a protest by Uighurs on Sunday in the regional capital of Urumqi, left one police officer and "a number of civilians" dead, the official Xinhua news agency said. A Chinese worker at a hotel close to People's Square, in the centre of Urumqi, said he heard intermittent gunfire on Sunday and saw armoured cars deployed to quell the rioting. Internet and outgoing telephone services were suspended as police continued patrolling the streets Monday, the hotel worker told the German Press Agency
Copyright DPA
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