Al Jazeera English - Asia-Pacific - Scores dead in Xinjiang riot: "China's government has blamed Uighur exiles for inciting a riot in the country's western Xinjiang region that it says left 140 people dead and more than 800 injured.
According to the official Xinhua news agency the deaths occurred in the city of Urumqi on Sunday after a protest against the government's handling of an industrial dispute turned violent.
The agency said rioters burned and smashed vehicles, and fought with police, while state broadcaster CCTV showed footage of people throwing rocks at police and overturning a police car.
Xinhua had reported earlier that three people died in the clashes, all of them ethnic Han Chinese, as well as one police officer."
According to the official Xinhua news agency the deaths occurred in the city of Urumqi on Sunday after a protest against the government's handling of an industrial dispute turned violent.
The agency said rioters burned and smashed vehicles, and fought with police, while state broadcaster CCTV showed footage of people throwing rocks at police and overturning a police car.
Xinhua had reported earlier that three people died in the clashes, all of them ethnic Han Chinese, as well as one police officer."
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