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.

Mobs of thugs roamed the streets attacking the vulnerable in Xinjiang’s capital today as riots that left more than 150 people dead degenerated into communal violence.

CHINA foiled a bid to cause an air disaster on a passenger jet en route to Beijing and the plane made a safe emergency landing, an official said yesterday, in what state media called an attempted terrorist attack.

Chinese police captured and killed alleged Islamic terrorists plotting attacks targeting the Beijing Olympic Games, a senior Communist Party official said today.