Bomb in Urumqi

In Urumqi, capital of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, three people were killed and 79 were injured when an explosion and a knife attack occurred at the same time at a rail station on April 30. The explosion was centered in a pile of luggage near the station’s exit and a bus stop. 

Xinjiang is home to Uyghurs, ethnically Turkic people who are largely Muslim. A separatist movement in the region has been blamed for terrorist activities in the past.