14 Killed in Stampede in Northwest China
By CHRIS BUCKLEY
Published: January 5, 2014/ The New York Times
The stampede occurred outside the Beida Mosque in Xiji County in the
Ningxia region, a part of northwest China dominated by members of the
Hui ethnic group, a Muslim people who share some traits and cultural
links with the country’s Han Chinese majority. Residents of the area
were commemorating a religious figure associated with the mosque, Xinhua
said.
Photographs posted on Chinese news websites showed a dense crowd, many of them men in white religious caps, packed around the mosque
before the stampede, as well as images of what the reports said was the
aftermath: torn clothes and shoes lost in the panic and abandoned on
the gravel, and the bodies of children, apparently crushed to death by
the panicking crowd.
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In addition to the 14 people who died, 10 more were taken to a local
hospital with injuries, including 4 who were in serious condition,
Xinhua reported. The agency did not say specifically how the people were
killed or injured; an investigation was underway, it said.
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China’s 10.6 million Hui Muslims are distinct from the country’s Uighur
Muslims, who have been a source of unrest in the Xinjiang region in the
far west. Many Hui people mix more easily with Han Chinese than Uighurs
typically do. But Hui people tend to be fiercely protective of their
traditions, especially in Ningxia and other parts of northwest China;
Hui villagers there and elsewhere have protested in past years over
perceived religious insults.
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President Xi Jinping and other senior Chinese officials issued
instructions for dealing with the stampede deaths, Xinhua said.
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