From: AOL News
At least 140 people are killed after tensions between ethnic Muslim
Uighur people and China's Han majority boil over into riots in the
volatile Xinjiang region. The violence may stem from earlier
protests over the deaths of two Uighurs who were killed during a
fight with Han Chinese co-workers at a factory in southern China.
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