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What’s behind rising violence in China’s west?

By Christopher Bodeen
Published May 22, 2014 6:03pm ET
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What’s behind rising violence in China’s west?
China's Public Security Minister Guo Shengkun, center, talks with Xinjiang Party Secretary Zhang Chunxian, right, as they visit the site of an explosion in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang region, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Assailants in two SUVs plowed through shoppers while setting off explosives on a busy street market in China's volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang on Thursday, the local officials said, killing over two dozen people and injuring more than 90. The attack was the bloodiest in a series of violent incidents that Chinese authorities have blamed on radical separatists from the country's Muslim Uighur minority. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) | Andy Wong

BEIJING (AP) — A pair of trucks smashed through metal barriers and plowed through crowds of early morning shoppers Thursday in the far western city of Urumqi, capital of the volatile Xinjiang region, killing dozens of people. It was the latest and bloodiest in a rising number of increasingly bold attacks blamed on extremists among the Turkic Muslim Uighur ethnic group that is native to the area.

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