Blasts in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 2

Blasts in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 2
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At least two people were killed Sunday and several injured during three separate explosions in China's Xinjiang province.

Xinjiang has seen "rising tensions" between the local Muslim Uighur and Han Chinese settlers, the BBC reports. Earlier on Sunday, state media reported that 17 police officers and officials were punished over attacks that took place in the city of Kashgar last July and killed dozens of people.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.