Dozens of people were killed or wounded when attackers ploughed two SUVs through a morning street market in the capital of China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, in the latest in a string of bloody attacks in the ethnically-divided region.
Photos uploaded to China’s Twitter-like Weibo service showed elderly customers and vendors sprawled in the street, while fires burned at the end of the road leading to the local district government. The local government said that 31 people died and 94 were injured.
“Take strict precautions against a chain reaction. Maintain the policy of striking hard and increase the pressure,” Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, ordered after the attack.