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| Uighur protest in Berlin for autonomy for their Muslim minority in Xinjiang, China - July 10, 2009 (Photo by langkawi) |
President Xi had just finished a tour of the area in which he promised to "get tough" on fighting terrorism.
By Michael Forsythe
An explosion hit a railroad station Wednesday evening in Urumqi, the capital of western China’s restive Xinjiang region where President Xi Jinping had just concluded a visit, with state media reporting at least 50 people injured.
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While there was no immediate indication it was a deliberate attack, the blast was described by Chinese commentators and analysts as the work of Xinjiang’s militant Uighur separatists, probably meant as a message of defiance to Mr. Xi.
The blast took place near the station’s exit about 7:10 p.m., around the time a passenger train from the city of Chengdu arrived, China Central Television reported on Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like microblogging service. The police sealed off entrances to the square around the station, in the southern part of Urumqi, and ambulances took the injured away.
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