Terror attacks kill dozens in China's tense Xinjiang region

Hong Kong - A series of explosions , killing dozens of people and injured many more , volatile western region of Xinjiang Thursday Chinese capital opportunities through an open market , state media reported .
Bangkok, Ministry of Public Security of the attack heavily guarded city of China "serious violent terrorist acts " and pledged to crack down on criminals told . It is " severely punished " behind President Xi Jinping called terrorists.
Two SUVs 7:50 am Thursday, shoppers gather in Urumqi market crashed and the explosives were thrown out of the vehicle , the official Chinese news agency Xinhua said .
At least 31 people were killed and over 90 injured in the vehicle , which exploded , according Xinhua.The location of the event IncidentLocation
Burning debris scattered on the ground in some of the pictures circulating on social media agency offering a hellish scene. Other policemen protected by flames and smoke coming out of the end of a tree-lined street showed .
' A great word '
"I have a great sound, and then I looked up from my ear balcony, " only his surname, Dong, who said that a resident of a building near the blast.
Believed to be a lot of trees obscured the scene, but told CNN that " the injured person , could see what was chaos . "
Who regularly visited the market was caught in the explosion , many of the victims are elderly , reported Xinhua.
"It's mainly vegetables, cooked vegetables and buy early to get those people coming to trade, particularly in the elderly ," Shan said.China, Xinjiang in the explosion
The recent series of attacks
Chinese authorities in the region and beyond, in a series of attacks in major Chinese cities in recent months have stepped up security measures in Xinjiang.
Wednesday, the day before the explosion , 39 people in Xinjiang Xinhua " inciting violence " has been sentenced to prison in the last two months of the report.
But on Thursday, the government faces a determined to wreak havoc on the recommendation of the devastating blast enemy.
Three people died in an explosion Thursday's attack and 79 others were injured in a train station in Bangkok injury comes less than a month later.
Only after he was overwhelmed by a visit to the region Xi explosion, which took place on April 30.
Ethnic tensions
Islamic separatists in Xinjiang to Chinese authorities in the southwestern city of Kunming is a train station in March that killed 29 people on a link band knife attack .
They crashed a car on a pedestrian bridge and burst into flames , and the three occupants of the car , killing two tourists in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in October separatists are blamed for the attacks.
Tiananmen Square and the attack hit the car in Kunming knife - wielding attackers after lungi , a Turk who speaks of Xinjiang , ethnic group mainly Muslim is identified as .
After Lungi and racial tensions between the Chinese have , millions of whom have migrated to Xinjiang is rich in resources in recent decades , several times in recent years has spilled over into deadly riots and clashes with the authorities.
After lungi took the lion's share of economic opportunities Xinjiang and Han Chinese security forces have expressed resentment over the harsh treatment of the people. Over 90 % of the total population of the Han , the dominant ethnic group in China.
Change in white
Pattern of ethnic violence in the region, James Leibold , La Trobe University in Melbourne , according to an expert on race relations in China goes back decades .
" But what 's new, and what I think is important , we have a change in the target," Leibold said. " We meet every innocent civilians, innocent civilians , the place has a purpose - . Enormous amounts of innocent civilians in an attempt to maul "
Other changes on the other side of the Chinese border violence of Xinjiang " filtered out " were said .
It is unclear who exactly is behind the high-profile attacks in recent months .
Chinese officials responsible for the violent incidents in the past , which is an unknown separatist group , the East Turkestan Islamic Movement ( Etim ) , said . Groups Read Xinjiang Uyghur East Turkestan is the name used .
But analysts Etim international terrorist network activities al- Qaeda and the extent of their links are shared.
"In general, the reaction is to blame the terrorists without giving too many details, " Leibold said. "This is like the previous ones, so I doubt that's going to be very difficult to get to the bottom of . "