Witnesses say ethnic protest spreads to second city in China’s Xinjiang region

BEIJING — Witnesses say an ethnic protest has spread to a second city in China’s western Xinjiang province after riots rocked the region’s capital, killing at least 140 and injuring more than 800.

China official says 140 people killed, 828 hurt amid riots in restive far west

URUMQI, China — Violent street battles killed at least 140 people and injured 828 others in the deadliest ethnic unrest to hit China’s volatile western Xinjiang region in decades, and officials said Monday the death toll was expected to rise.

Quotations of the day

Quotations of the day

“The preliminary findings of our internal investigation have determined established protocols were not followed at an initial checkpoint, verifying that two individuals were on the guest list. Although these individuals went through magnetometers and other levels of screening, they should have been prohibited from entering the event entirely. That failing is ours.” — Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan acknowledging that agents never checked whether gate crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi were on a state dinner guest list before letting them onto the White House grounds.