HONG KONG -- Protests have broken out in China's remote Xinjiang region, as anger boils over three months of harsh COVID curbs, and after a fatal blaze at a locked-down apartment killed 10.
Anger boils in remote region after blaze in locked-down apartment kills 10
Demonstrations against COVID controls in Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital. The remote Chinese region has been under a three-month lockdown. © Reuters
HONG KONG -- Protests have broken out in China's remote Xinjiang region, as anger boils over three months of harsh COVID curbs, and after a fatal blaze at a locked-down apartment killed 10.