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| Security forces on alert after an explosion occurred in Urumqi market . |
An explosion killed at least 31 people and injuring 94 others after some people threw petrol bombs and two cars crashed into a market in the capital of Xinjiang , Urumqi .
As reported by Xinhua news agency , one of the vehicles exploded in attacks that occurred on Thursday ( 23 / 05 ) morning .
The photos eyewitness distributed through Chinese social networking site , Weibo , showed the attack occurred when the market was packed with visitors .
" Witnesses said two vehicles running from north to south and then bumping into people who feel in the market at 7:50 pm local time . Explosives thrown from the vehicle , " Xinhua reported .
The incident was the latest violence in Xinjiang is inhabited by ethnic Uighurs .
Last month , a bomb attack occurred in Urumqi station which killed three people and injured dozens of people . China has accused Uighur separatists were behind the attack .
The Chinese government strictly controls the dissemination of information related incidents in the region , which was hit by tensions between ethnic Uighurs and Han Chinese .
Xinjiang authorities arrested hundreds of people
Security forces Xinjiang region of China , has been arrested more than 200 people during the past six weeks on charges of dissemination of terrorist videos . Action was acted in the wake of attacks on a number of railway stations .
As reported by the government newspaper , the Global Times , police in the Muslim-majority region 's ethnic Uighur hold as many as 232 people .
They are accused of spreading the various video footage in the virtual world that promotes terrorism . Previously , at the end of March,
Xinjiang regional government officially banned the downloading , storage , and distribution of terror related videos over the internet .
Terror is also the form of religious extremism and separatism of ethnic groups .
The arrest of hundreds of people on suspicion of terrorism perpetrated by deploying video China in the wake of incidents of assault in the train station in the Xinjiang region and surrounding areas .
In April , a group of armed men stormed dagger station in Urumqi , capital of Xinjiang , causing three people were killed and 79 others injured .
Then in March, 29 people were killed and 143 others injured when a group of men armed with machetes attacked a train station in Kunming City
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Beijing accuses separatist groups , such as the Turkistan Islamic Party ( TIP ) and the East Turkistan Islamic movement ( ETIM ) as the mastermind behind the event sequence .
Dilshat Rexit , a spokesman for the World Uighur Congress , criticized the series of arrests in Xinjiang . The Chinese government had deliberately put on the attack recently as an excuse to arrest Uighur Muslims .
" Action was acted to arrest Uighurs who use the internet in order to uncover the Chinese policies that do not uphold tolerance , " said Rexit .
Some human rights groups say the tension in Xinjiang caused by cultural oppression and the Chinese government's policy is to send those ethnic Han massively to the Xinjiang region .
BBC
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