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Kazakh National Seriously Wounded In China Unrest


ASTANA -- A Kazakh national is among those seriously wounded in Urumchi unrest during the past week, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.

According to Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Ilyas Omarov, the Kazakh man was hospitalized with a head injury and his condition is serious but stable.

Ethnic clashes in China's Xinjiang autonomous region have left at least 150 dead and hundreds injured since July 5.

Chinese authorities had previously said there were no foreign nationals among the wounded.

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