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My Profile Top News Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. Subscribe You are here: Home > News > International > Article Home Business & Finance News U.S. Politics International Technology Entertainment Sports Lifestyle Oddly Enough Health Science Special Coverage Video Pictures Your View The Great Debate Blogs Weather Reader Feedback Do More With Reuters RSS Widgets Mobile Podcasts Newsletters Your View Make Reuters My Homepage Partner Services CareerBuilder Affiliate Network Professional Products Support (Customer Zone) Reuters Media Financial Products About Thomson Reuters China says 140 dead in Xinjiang unrest Mon Jul 6, 2009 2:55am EDT Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] By Chris Buckley BEIJING (Reuters) - China said a riot that shook the capital of the western Xinjiang region on Sunday killed 140 people and the government called the ethnic unrest a plot against its power, signaling a security crackdown. Locals took to the streets of the capital, Urumqi, some burning and smashing vehicles and confronting ranks of police and anti-riot troops. The death toll from the rioting has risen to 140, the semi-official China News Agency quoted Li Zhi, the Communist Party Boss of Urumqi City, as telling a news conference on Monday morning. A separate report from the official Xinhua news agency had said the unrest injured 816, according to regional police authorities. That report had put the dead at 129. The government put the number of people on the streets on Sunday at 300 to 500 while other sources had it as high as 3,000. Chinese police have arrested "several hundred" who participated in the violence, including more than 10 key players who fanned unrest, Xinhua said. The riot followed a protest in Urumqi -- a city of 2.3 million residents 3,270 km (2,050 miles) west of Beijing -- against government handling of a late June clash between Han Chinese and Uighur factory workers in far southern China, where two Uighurs died in Shaoguan. On Monday morning "the situation was under control," Xinhua said. There were no immediate reports of violence in other parts of Xinjiang. But a senior official there swiftly delivered the government claim that the unrest was the work of extremist forces abroad, signaling a security crackdown in the already tense and strategic region near Pakistan and central Asia. "After the (Shaoguan) incident, the three forces abroad strived to beat this up and seized it as an opportunity to attack us, inciting street protests," Nuer Baikeli, governor of Xinjiang, said in a speech shown on Xinjiang television. The "three forces" refer to groups the government says engage in separatism, militant action and religious extremism. "In Xinjiang, nothing is worth speaking of without stability," said Nuer Baikeli, a Uighur. Officials ordered traffic off the streets in parts of Urumqi to ensure there was no fresh unrest, Xinhua added. "The city is basically under martial law," Yang Jin, a dried fruit merchant in Urumqi, said by telephone. "It would be wrong for anyone to say he wasn't afraid, but the situation looks calm for now." Continued... View article on single page Share: Del.icio.us Digg Mixx Yahoo! Facebook LinkedIn Next Article: Ousted Honduran president fails in bid to return Also on Reuters Blog: Abe Lincoln, the Big Cheese! Video Video: Statue of Liberty crown reopens "Untold" story of WW2 stirs Muslim youth pride More International News Ousted Honduran president fails in bid to return | Video Calderon's party loses Congress vote in Mexico Suspected North Korea weapons ship heads home One British soldier killed in Afghanistan Suicide blast kills 2 Afghans outside foreign base More International News... 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