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Agence France Presse, June 26, 2013
Riots in China's ethnically divided Xinjiang region on Wednesday left 27 people dead, according to Chinese state media, which said that police opened fire on "knife-wielding mobs".
It was the deadliest spasm of violence to hit the troubled western region since 2009.
Xinjiang is about twice the size of Turkey and is home to around 10 million members of the mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority.
Police shot at "mobs" who had attacked police stations, a local government building and a construction site, the Xinhua news agency said, citing local officials. "Seventeen people had been killed... before police opened fire and shot dead 10 rioters," it said. The mobs were also "stabbing at people and setting fire to police cars", the report said [....]
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