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Xinjiang-bound "bomb threat" plane lands in Afghanistan (2nd Lead)

Aug 9, 2009, 17:36 GMT

Beijing - A plane bound for the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China's west, which had received a bomb threat on Sunday, landed in Afghanistan early Monday morning, Chinese state media said. Citing unnamed diplomatic sources, the official Xinhua news agency said the plane had landed in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Earlier, the 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 prevent the plane landing in the city, the report said. No further details were provided about the type of aircraft or number of passengers on board. Riots broke out in Xinjiang last month between the region's ethnic Uighur and Han Chinese residents, with more than 197 people killed and over 1,000 injured. The government has blamed outside separatist forces for the unrest.

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