China unrest: 1,680 injured

CHINA has raised the injured toll from ethnic clashes a week ago to 1,680 – one more bit in the trickle of information the government has released on the unrest in the far west, though much remains unknown.

The official Xinhua News Agency said the number of people wounded during the violence that broke out July 5 in the regional capital of Urumqi has increased by nearly 600, according to Xinjiang governor Nur Bekri.

He said that more than 900 of the injured remained hospitalised.