Plane heading Xinjiang got bomb threat

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[edit] Plane heading Xinjiang got bomb threat

Emergency vehicles leaving the airport after the incident

Armed police vehicles leaving the airport after the incident

In the morning of Aug. 10, 2009, airport has resumed normal operation, and all flights are running at regular schedules.

Xinhua News Agency reported that an Afghan passenger plane to fly to Xinjiang received the bomb threat, and had returned to Afgan after Urumqi Airport has refused to allow the plane to land at Urumqi Diwopu International Airport.

It was previously reported that "Plane hijacked in Xinjiang."

Xinhua said the plane later landed in Kandahar, quoting diplomatic sources.

No details of the reported threat to the plane were given, but it said that armed police and emergency vehicles had rushed to Urumqi airport just in case.

The incident comes a month after 197 people, most of them Han, died in a deadly ethnic violence between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese in Xinjiang's regional capital, Urumqi.

In Xinjiang's worst ethnic violence in decades, Uighurs attacked Han Chinese in Urumqi on July 5 after police tried to break up a protest against the killing of Uighur workers in South China.