Across China: Xinjiang

Accidental firing: 1 dead

A man was killed yesterday when a police official accidentally fired his gun as cops were trying to appease a clash over a real estate dispute in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, the local government said.

According to the municipal government, about 60 people gathered at the construction site of a new building at about 9 am yesterday to protest the mixed-use, high-rise building that would block much of the sun from an apartment building just 10 meters away.