ALMOST 10,000 Uighurs involved in deadly riots in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region went missing in one night, an exiled Uighur activist has said yesterday, calling for an international investigation.

China's president abruptly cut short a G8 summit trip early today as bloody ethnic tensions worsened in the country's oil-rich Xinjiang territory.

THE government imposed a curfew last night in the capital city of western China after mobs of Han Chinese armed with cleavers roamed the streets looking for Muslim Uyghurs who had earlier attacked people in the country’s worst ethnic violence in decades.