Assailants in Xinjiang blast identified says
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(CNN) -- Chinese state media is proclaiming the Xinjiang bomb blast "case cl
osed" after authorities claimed to have identified the suspected assailants.
Two "religious extremists" have been pinpointed as the alleged assailants be
hind the bombing and knife attacks that took place at Urumqi South Railway S
tation on Wednesday, reports Xinhua, China's state news agency.
Both suspects were killed in the incident. One of them has been identified a
s Sedirdin Sawut, a 39-year-old man from Aksu in southern Xinjiang.
Xinhua, quoting police, also said "knife-wielding mobs" attacked people at o
ne of the station's exits following the blast. One innocent bystander was al
so killed in the blast and 79 were injured. Xinhua says some of the injured
victims have been released from hospital.
Police evacuated people from the square in front of the station, deployed ar
med officers and cordoned off entrances to the station, where train services
had been suspended.
The station reopened about two hours later with passengers re-entering under
a heavily-armed police presence.
The attacks took place on Wednesday evening, coinciding with the end of a fo
ur-day tour of the Xinjiang region by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
After the blast, President Xi urged "decisive actions" against violent terro
rist attacks.
The fight against separatist violence in the autonomous region in the northw
est of the country was a focus of the Chinese leader's visit.
Frequent outbreaks of violence have beset the resource-rich region, where th
e arrival of waves of Han Chinese people over the past few decades has fuele
d tensions with the Uyghurs, a Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim ethnic
group.
In March a violent terror attack took place at a train station Kunming in Yu
nnan province when ten men armed with knives killed 29 commuters.
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