Asia-Pacific News
China-bound plane in Xingjiang "bomb threat" incident (1st Lead)
Aug 9, 2009, 17:12 GMT
Beijing - An Afghan plane bound for the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China's west had received a bomb threat on Sunday, state media reported.
After first announcing the plane had been hijacked, the official Xinhua news agency cited armed police sources in Xinjiang as saying an 'Afghanistan plane scheduled to Urumqi of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was bomb-threatened'.
Aviation authorities had been ordered to deny the plane's landing in the city, the report said, but armed police and emergency vehicles were being sent to the airport for an emergency response, according to Xinhua.
Riots in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi last month between the region's ethnic Uighur and Han Chinese residents left at least 197 people dead and over 1,000 injured.
The government has blamed outside separatist forces for the unrest.
COMMENT
blog comments powered by DisqusLatest Headlines in Asia-Pacific
- 1. Chinese dissidents hail late democracy activist Fang Lizhi
- 2. China "worried" over planned North Korea rocket launch
- 3. Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi meets Karen rebels
- 4. Chinese schoolboy sells kidney to buy iPad, iPhone
- 5. Myanmar president invites Karen rebels to form party
Older Talkback
