News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 2 months ago
A court in western China's Xinjiang region sentenced four men accused of jabbing a pedestrian with a hypodermic needle to prison terms of up to 15 years Thursday, as authorities move swiftly to assuage public panic. The men were the second group of...
News Source: NewKerala
| 2 months ago
They were hoping to ramp up violence and panic in the troubled region by carrying out suicide bombings and other outrages, police said Wednesday. Investigators uncovered a large cache of bomb-making material when they conducted operations in Aksu, in...
News Source: International Herald Tribune
| 2 months ago
China announced the breakup of a bomb-making plot in the volatile western region of Xinjiang on Wednesday, an apparent indication that authorities had not only failed suppress the ethnic hatreds there but that the weapons of choice in the feud could...
News Source: BBC
| 2 months ago
The alleged "terrorist gang" members were detained in the city of Aksu, and had made at least 20 explosive devices, according to state news agency Xinhua. They are reported to have begun making bombs after the clashes in July between ethnic Uighurs...
News Source: Hindustan times
| 2 months ago
Chinese police have broken up a criminal gang which made explosives in the restive far western region of Xinjiang, state media reported on Wednesday, claiming that the action had prevented an attack. On July 5, 197 people, mostly majority Han Chinese,...
News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| 2 months ago
Police in China's restive Xinjiang have detained six people suspected of plotting "terrorist" attacks, two months after deadly ethnic unrest rocked the northwest region, officials said Wednesday. The detentions come as tensions simmer across the vast...