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| Courtesy of NN2N1, the Daily Mail’s report: |
Chinese police clash with thousands protesting draconian COVID lockdowns as unprecedented civil unrest grips country - after ten died in fire when building doors were locked to stop virus spread
- In Shanghai, China's most populous city and financial hub, protests broke out on Saturday night at the city's Wulumuqi Road
- 'Lift lockdown for Urumqi, lift lockdown for Xinjiang, lift lockdown for all of China!' the crowds in Shanghai shouted, according to a video on social media
- At one point a large group began shouting, 'Down with the Chinese Communist Party, down with Xi Jinping, free Urumqi!', according to witnesses and videos in a rare public protest against the Chinese leadership
- A large group of police looked on and sometimes tried to break up the crowd
- China is battling a surge in infections that prompted lockdowns and restrictions in cities across the country
- Beijing is attempting stick to a zero-COVID policy even as much of the world tries to coexist with the virus
- Public fury forced authorities in Xinjiang to open up parts of the capital Urumqi which has been subject to a punishing 'zero-Covid' lockdown for over 3 months
- The protests were triggered in-part by deaths of at least ten people in a fire at an apartment block who were unable to escape because their doors had been locked due to the virus
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