China warned its citizens in Algeria to be alert after the al Qaeda threatened to attack its nationals oversees to avenge Beijing's clampdown in Urumqi.
China today warned its citizens in Algeria to be alert after the al-Qaeda threatened to attack its nationals oversees to avenge Beijing's clampdown in Urumqi where the death toll in the recent communal violence has risen to 192.
China issued the warning to its citizens in Algeria in a statement published on the website of its embassy there, a day after the al-Qaeda warned of retribution through its Algeria-based offshoot Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
"The Chinese Embassy in Algeria is specially calling on Chinese-funded organisations and personnel to raise their security awareness and strengthen security measures," it said.
It asked its citizens to report any "emergency matter" to the embassy immediately and strengthen security measures "in view of the situation following the violent criminal incident in Urumqi on July 5".
Meanwhile eight more people were declared dead in Urumqi, ten days after China's worst communal violence.
"The death toll of the July 5 riot in the capital city of Xinjiang rose to 192," a local official was quoted as saying by the state-run
Xinhua news agency.
However, no fresh breakdown of the people killed in the violence was given with the new toll.
The government, had earlier put the toll at 184, saying that 137 of the victims were Han Chinese while 46 were from the minority Ugygur Muslim community. One victim was from the Hui community.
The regional government has put the number of injured at 1,680 in the July 5 violence, sparked by a protest by the Uygur Muslims who were demanding a probe into a brawl between factory workers in a southern Chinese city that killed three people.
Xinhua had said on Sunday that 74 of of the injured were in critical condition.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang has said Beijing will "take all necessary measures to ensure the safety of overseas Chinese institutions and people."
China today also lashed out at a call by a Turkish minister to boycott its goods terming it "irresponsible".
"Some people in some countries made some irresponsible comments on imports of Chinese products after the Xinjiang incident," Chinese commerce ministry spokesman Yao Jian told newsmen today.
"But I don't think this means the country will introduce this policy," he said.
He was responding to a statement by Turkey's trade minister Nihat Ergun last week asking consumers not to buy goods from China to protest the unrest involving Muslim Uygurs who are of Turkish origin.
China's leading newspaper the
China Daily today also lashed out at Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for calling the ethnic violence in China as "a kind of genocide".
It termed Erdogan's comments as "an irresponsible and groundless accusation" and one which "twist facts".
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