A witness in Urumqi, Xinjiang province of China has reported that Chinese soldiers shot Uighur protesters on Sunday, causing many deaths and injuries. They said that dead bodies were seen being put into military vehicles.
Uighurs were protesting peacefully in the northwestern Chinese city of Urumqi after an incident in a toy factory in Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province a week ago. Allegedly, a fight broke out in the factory between several hundred Uighur and Han Chinese workers after a rape. Apparently there were 118 wounded and two female Uighur workers killed in the fight. All Uighur workers were fired following the incident—causing protests to build in Urumqi, according to state media.
Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the pro-independence World Uighur Congress, headquartered in Munich, Germany, relayed information from eye witnesses to the event. The witnesses said that 50 military vehicles had entered Urumqi.
