China raises Xinjiang death toll to 184
11:39, 11 July 2009
BAKU. Junly 11. KAZINFORM China has raised the death toll from ethnic rioting in the far western region of Xinjiang to 184, the state Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday, Reuters repoted, Kazinform cites Trend News.
It said 137 of those killed were Han Chinese, who form the majority of China's population.
Forty-six were Uighurs, a Turkic people who are largely Muslim and share linguistic and cultural bonds with Central Asia. They make up almost half of Xinjiang's 20 million people.
Xinhua said the other dead person from the violence that erupted last weekend was from the Hui Muslim ethnic group which is culturally akin to Han Chinese, Kazinform refers to Trend News.
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