31 killed in China's Xinjiang region

22 May 2014 10:34 | 645

Attackers in China's restive Xinjiang region have crashed two cars into shoppers at a market, killing 31 people SIA reports quoting SIA.

They also threw explosives during the attack in the regional capital Urumqi. More than 90 people were injured.

Xinjiang, which is home to the Muslim Uighur minority, has seen a spate of attacks in the past year. Last month a bomb attack at a station in Urumqi killed three people and injured dozens more. China blamed the attack on Uighur separatists.

Information about incidents in the region, where ethnic tensions between Uighurs and Han Chinese continue, is tightly controlled. One of the vehicles exploded in the attack, which happened on Thursday morning.

"Witnesses said two cross-country vehicles driving from north to south ploughed into people in the market at 07:50. Explosives were thrown out of the vehicles".

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