UIGHUR MILITANTS BLAMED IN BOMB ATTACKS.

A Chinese official was cited today as stating on Urumqi television that four people were killed and "tens of people" were wounded in two bomb explosions in that city, capital of the Xinjiang-Uighur Autonomous Region. The attacks, traced to Uighur militants, targeted Urumqi public buses on the day of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping’s funeral in Beijing. (Itar-Tass, February 26) Earlier this month Chinese army and police units put down Uighur riots in the town of Yinin, killing nine and injuring almost 200 according to official Beijing reports. Uighur sources reported a far higher toll.

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