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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese airline passengers helped foil on Friday an attempt to hijack a plane in the western region of Xinjiang, state media said, the latest incident of instability in a part of China where the government says it is facing violent separatists.
Passengers and air crew subdued six people who attempted to hijack a flight 10 minutes after it took off from an airport in Hotan, an ethnic Uighur area that has been hit by recent bouts of violence, the official Xinhua news agency said.
The Tianjin Airlines plane was flying from Hotan to the regional capital Urumqi when the attackers were overpowered, Xinhua said, citing police.
The aircraft returned to Hotan where six people were taken into custody, it said without giving further details. Calls to Xinjiang regional government and police offices went unanswered.
Xinjiang is home to the mainly Muslim Uighur people who speak a Turkic language. Many of them chafe at Chinese government controls on their culture and religion.
The government, wary of instability and the threat to the Communist Party's grip on power, often blames what it calls violent separatist groups and religious extremists in Xinjiang for attacks on police and other government targets.
In September, courts in Xinjiang sentenced four people to death for violence in two cities last year in which 32 people were killed.
The government blamed the incidents in Kashgar and Hotan - both in the majority Uighur southern part of Xinjiang - on Muslim hardliners who want to establish an independent state called East Turkestan.
In January, authorities said that seven people killed by police in Xinjiang had been trying to leave the country to wage "holy war".
China is concerned about Uighur activists linking up with Islamist militants over the border in Pakistan.
Activists in exile and human rights groups say China overstates the threat posed by militants in energy-rich Xinjiang, which sits astride south and central Asia.
(Additional reporting by Sabrina Mao and Sally Huang; Editing by Robert Birsel)
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