China identifies suspects of suicide bombing attack in Xinjiang - Xinhua


  • World
  • Saturday, 24 May 2014

Paramilitary policemen patrol past a building with broken windows after an explosion in Urumqi, in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, in this photo taken by Kyodo May 22, 2014. REUTERS/Kyodo

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese police have identified five suspects who carried out a suicide bombing in the deadliest attack in the country's restive Xinjiang region in years, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

The report said 39 people were killed from the bombing on Thursday morning at a vegetable market in Urumqi in far western China, home to a large Muslim Uighur minority.

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