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China's Xinjiang region starts "one-year crackdown" on "violent terrorist activities" -Xinhua

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23-05-2014 | 10:13

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China's Xinjiang region has started a "one-year crackdown" on "violent terrorist activities", the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday, providing no further details.

The troubled Xinjiang region in western China, home to a large Muslim Uihgur minority, was the scene of China's biggest attack in years on Thursday, when explosives hurled from two vehicles in an open market killed 31 people.

China called the attack in the regional capital of Urumqi a "serious violent terrorist incident" and domestic security chief Meng Jianzhu vowed to strengthen a crackdown on the "arrogance of terrorists". Ninety-four people were wounded.

Also on Friday, China said the people who carried out an attack which killed 31 people in the capital of the country's troubled Xinjiang region appeared to be influenced by "terrorist" organizations outside China.

China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a daily news briefing that the attackers were influenced by religious extremism seen on the Internet.

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