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Chinese state media says 5 suicide bombers carried out Xinjiang attack

2014-05-23 208 Dailymotion

It's been one day since China's deadliest act of violence in the troubled Xinjiang region......and security is still tight and police are on edge.<br /> <br />Only now has state media revealed that five suicide bombers were behind the attack here in the capital Urumqi.<br /> <br />This video has just emerged, showing broken windows and damaged shop fronts after the attackers ploughed two vehicles into the open market, hurling explosives.<br /> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) ETHNIC HAN CHINESE URUMQI RESIDENT MRS. TIAN SAYING:<br /> <br />"Then another car quickly followed, and in the same way it just ploughed straight forward. I said 'Oh no, something's happening' and I turned straight around and ran away, and then I heard the sound of explosions, 'bang, bang'."<br /> <br />More than 30 people died. Most of them were elderly shoppers, mostly Hans, China's majority ethnic group.<br /> <br />Xinjiang is home to the Muslim Uighur minority, who have long complained of official discrimination in favour of the Han people.

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