Protests erupt in China's Xinjiang over 3-month COVID lockdown

Anger boils in remote region after blaze in locked-down apartment kills 10

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Demonstrations against COVID controls in Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital. The remote Chinese region has been under a three-month lockdown. © Reuters

PAK YIU, Nikkei staff writer

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.

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