Several hundred Uighurs staged a assert Tuesday as Chinese officials took a band of extrinsic journalists on a trek of Urumqi, the tumult-hit cap of the far western territory of Xinjiang.

The protesters sat down after they were blocked by tumult policewomen, reporters in Urumqi said.

It was not closely known how the assert ended, and it was not reported by claim media.

An true in Urumqi, at the rule smooth hub responding to questions on the up to date concern, refused to endorse if any new assert had taken burden.

State media Tuesday said policewomen in Xinjiang had ended a assert by Uighurs in a second municipality after the rioting that left-wing more than 150 unfeeling in Urumqi Sunday and Monday.

Police in Kashgar, China's westernmost municipality, dispersed more than 200 Uighurs who gathered Monday evening at the city's Id Kah Mosque, the Xinhua talk instrumentality quoted officials as saying.

Police in Urumqi had arrested more than 1,400 suspects after the earlier rioting there, the instrumentality said.