A magnitude-6.8 earthquake has rocked China’s far western region of Xinjiang, the US Geological Survey said.

Violent incidents have spread this week in a tense minority region of western China.

Police in China’s restive Central Asia border area fatally shot seven members of a Muslim ethnic group in what officials say was an attempt to end a kidnapping.

A jihadist group has released a video claiming responsibility for recent attacks in western China that killed at least three dozen people.