Security forces participate in a military drill in Hetian, northwest China's Xinjiang region on June 6, 2014. - AFP
Beijing (AFP) - Chinese state media said Sunday that 37 civilians and 59 "terrorists" were killed last week in an attack in Xinjiang, home to China's mainly Muslim Uighur minority.
The total toll makes the incident by far the bloodiest since rioting involving Uighurs and members of China's Han majority killed around 200 people in the regional capital Urumqi in 2009.
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