Chinese authorities dramatically revise death toll in Xinjiang violence . China says it has arrested more than 100 people for the attacks and that police have killed at least 20 of them. Chinese authorities late Thursday dramatically revised upward the death toll of a violent incident they say occurred earlier in the week in Xinjiang , an ethnically divided region in China 's far west . Police said there was a string of terrorist bombings that led to some deaths . The region has seen several attacks due to ethnic strife .
Chinese authorities dramatically revise death toll in Xinjiang violence . China says it has arrested more than 100 people for the attacks and that police have killed at least 20 of them. Police said there was a string of terrorist bombings that led to some deaths . The region has seen several attacks due to ethnic strife .