Xinjiang, the restive region in the far west of China, saw its worst violence since large-scale ethnic unrest in 2009 when a riot left at least 27 people dead on Wednesday.
Xinhua, the official news agency, said knife-wielding mobs had attacked police stations, the local government building and a construction site in Lukqun, a remote township some 200km east of Urumqi, the regional capital, early in the morning.
Quoting local Communist party officials, the report said the rioters had stabbed people and set police cars on fire. “Seventeen people had been killed – including nine policemen or security guards and eight civilians – before police opened fire and shot dead 10 rioters,” the report said.
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