Chinese airline plane hijacked in China
August 10th, 2009 - 12:02 am ICT by John Le FevreA passenger airplane is reported to have been hijacked in the country’s troubled western region of Xinjang.
The official Chinese news agency, Xinhua, did not give any details about the hijacking in a brief alert issued on Sunday.
Deadly rioting in Xinjiang’s capital of Urumqi between Uyghurs and Hans killed 197 people and injured more than 1,700 last month and caused Chinese President Hu Jintao to cut short his attendance at the 35th G8 summit and return to China.
The violence was part of ongoing ethnic tensions between the Han—the largest ethnic group in China—and the Uyghurs—a Turkic, and predominantly Muslim, minority ethnic group.
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