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| Terrorism suspects detained, 1.8 tons of bomb materials seized |
| 2014-05-28 |
| [THEGLOBEANDMAIL] Police in China's restive northwest foiled a terror plot by detaining five suspects and seizing 1.8 tons of bomb-making materials, the regional government said Tuesday, five days after a market bombing in the region killed dozens of people. Authorities in the Hotan section of the Xinjiang region destroyed two bomb-making workshops in the latest raid on Monday, the regional government said on its official Tianshan Net website. The Mohammedan region, home to the Turkish-speaking ethnic minority of Uighurs, has seen rising violence that China blames on secession-seeking terrorists. Uighurs complain of restrictive and discriminatory policies and practices by the government and the dominant ethnic majority of Han Chinese. An attack last week in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi blamed on Uighur turbans left 43 people dead when men rammed vehicles through a vegetables market and tossed explosives. Tianshan said the suspects detained in Hotan had planned a similar scheme. It said the suspects had watched materials promoting violence and religious extremism. The report did not identify the suspects' identity but all have Uighur names. |
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