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Xinjiang riots: Urumqi party chief, Xinjiang police chief removed | In the aftermath of Xinjiang riots that erupted on July 5, the party chief of Urumqi and police chief of northwest China 's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
have been sacked. According to a decision by the CPC Xinjiang Autonomous Regional
Committee, Li Zhi, secretary of the Urumqi Municipal Committee of the Communist
Party of China (CPC), was replaced by Zhu Hailun. Xinjiang's police chief Liu
Yaohua was also replaced by Zhu Changjie, party chief of Xinjiang's Aksu Prefecture
, Xinhua reports. Fresh protests broke out this week after hundreds of Urumqi
residents said that they were attacked by syringes. Five people were killed in
the following protests. Local hospitals had dealt with 531 victims of hypodermic
syringe stabbings by Thursday, 106 of whom showed obvious signs of needle attacks.
Chinese military medical experts on Saturday ruled out the possibility that radioactive
substance, anthrax and toxic chemical were used in recent syringe attacks in Urumqi
City . "According to the preliminary test results, such possibilities can be ruled
out," said Qian Jun, director of Disease Control and Biological Security Office
with China 's Academy of Military Medical Sciences . Samples had been sent to
Beijing for further test, he added. Xinjiang police has captured 25 suspects amid
the syringe scare.
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