Xi vows to crack down ‘with heavy fist’ on bombers
M I AF Jittery traders yesterday set up their stalls near the scene of a market attack in the Muslim ighur homeland of injiang, after hina’s leader vowed to smash the “terrorists” responsible for the deaths of 31 people.
Washington condemned the “horrific terrorist attack” and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said “there is no justification for the killing of civilians.”
Assailants in two vehicles ploughed into shoppers and traders and threw explosives at a street market in rum i, the capital of the volatile region, on hursday.
he devastating attack was described by authorities as the latest “severe terrorist incident” to hit the far western region, home to hina’s mainly Muslim ighur minority.
hinese resident i Jinping pledged to “severely punish violent terrorists,” and “crack down on them with a heavy fist.”
More than 90 people were also wounded when the two off-road vehicles drove into the crowd, with one of them exploding, an incident with echoes of a fiery car crash in Beijing’s iananmen S uare last year.
ne local shopkeeper, who refused to be named, told P she saw desperate shoppers fleeing from the vehicles.
“ hey ran onto the pavement, but many couldn’t get away,” she said.