A CNN news article today reports on a bombing in Xinjiang, China by member of the Uighur ethnic group who drove a bicycle loaded with explosives into a crowd on Thursday killing seven people.
"The explosion took place around 10:30 a.m. on the outskirts of Aksu city in southern Xinjiang," said Hou Hanmin, deputy director of Xinjiang's information department. "Police have determined it was an intentional act."
The Uighurs are one of China's Muslim minorities, living primarily in the in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China's far west. Uighurs desiring independence from China have protested violently at times, including some serious riots in 2009 in which 200 people were killed and over 1800 injured.
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