Traffic and shopping resumed in Urumqi today after days of ethnic violence in the western city killed at least 156 people.

HUNDREDS of helmeted troops in riot gear swarmed the central square of the capital of western Xinjiang yesterday after ethnic riots left at least 156 dead.

Ethnic Uighurs clashed with armed police today in a fresh protest in Xinjiang, where at least 156 people have been killed and more than 1,400 people arrested in western China’s worst ethnic violence in decades.

Anti-Japanese protesters smashed windows and damaged the signs of Japanese-style noodle shops and bars in Shanghai’s central shopping district today.