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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 11 > Riot death toll rises to 184

Riot death toll rises to 184

State media: Most killed are Han Chinese

By William Foreman and Gillian Wong / The Bulletin
July 11, 2009

URUMQI, China — China raised the death toll from riots in its Xinjiang region to 184, state media said early today, giving an ethnic breakdown of the dead for the first time after communal violence broke out in this far western city.

The official Xinhua News Agency said 137 of the....

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