Beijing: China is investigating seven people, mostly security officials, in the restive deep south of troubled Xinjiang region on suspicion of graft, the regional government’s anti-corruption watchdog said. All seven were apparently ethnic Uighurs,.
Hundreds of people have been killed in far-western Xinjiang in the past two years, most in violence between the Muslim Uighur people, who call the region home, and ethnic majority Han Chinese. All seven were being investigated for “serious disciplinary violations”, it said, using the usual government euphemism for corruption.
It did not provide further details. In December, attackers drove a vehicle into a government building in Karakax, setting off an explosive device and using knives to kill two people before all three assailants were shot dead.
