Riots kill 27 in China's Xinjiang

Riots in China's ethnically divided Xinjiang region on Wednesday left 27 people dead, according to state media which said police opened fire on "knife-wielding mobs".
It was the latest spasm of violence to hit the troubled western region, which is about twice the size of Turkey and is home to around 10 million members of the mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority.
Police shot at "mobs" who had attacked police stations, a local government building and a construction site, the Xinhua news agency said.
Nine police or security guards and eight civilians were killed before police opened fire, the report said.