Xinjiang capital in chaos as mobs vow revenge

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Police on Tuesday fired clouds of acrid tear gas to disperse thousands of Han Chinese protesters, as chaos gripped this flashpoint city riven by ethnic tensions. Thousands of heavily armed police deployed across Urumqi, the capital of China's remote northwest Xinjiang region, but tensions spiked dramatically following weekend rioting that claimed at least 156 lives. In Hong Kong, the rights group Amnesty International urged China to "fully account" for the deaths while in Washington exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer called for an international probe.

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