WRAPUP 4-China raises Xinjiang death toll, adds ethnic detail

Sat Jul 11, 2009 4:28pm BST
 
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- For more on the trouble in Xinjiang, click on [ID:nXINJIANG])

* China gives death toll breakdown, most dead Han Chinese

* Urumqi still tense, security presence heavy

* Communist Party leader urges battle for stability

* No fresh outbreaks of protest in Urumqi

(Adds ban on demonstrations, paragraphs 17-18)

By Chris Buckley

URUMQI, China, July 11 (Reuters) - China raised the death toll from ethnic rioting in Xinjiang, giving for the first time the ethnicity of the dead, and a big security presence in the city at the centre of the strife prevented protests on Saturday.

The official Xinhua news agency said 184 people had died in the July 5 riots in Urumqi, the Xinjiang regional capital, and 137 of those killed were Han Chinese, who form the majority of China's 1.3 billion population. The previous death toll was 156.  Continued...

 

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