Urumqi descends into mob violence

SILENCE Officials said they could not provide a breakdown of how many of the people who have died in Xinjiang were Han and how many were Uighurs

AP , URUMQI, CHINA

The official Xinhua news agency said earlier yesterday that 1,434 suspects had been arrested, and that checkpoints had been set up to stop rioters from escaping.

Officials at the news conference said they could not give a breakdown of how many of the dead were Uighurs and how many were Han.

Sunday’s riot started as a demonstration by 1,000 to 3,000 people protesting the deaths of Uighur workers killed in a brawl in the southern city of Shaoguan last month.

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