Hotline reunites loved ones

They had been desperately searching for their 17-year-old son since the riots in Urumqi broke out on Sunday, but it was finally the parents' last gift that led him to them.

"Our staff spotted his body in the photo database of those who were killed in the violence," Zhang Yi, the director of FM 92.9, a radio station in the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, told China Daily yesterday.

"Besides the matching facial and bodily descriptions provided by his parents, staff also found him wearing a brand new pair of Adidas trainers they had bought for him two days before the riots," he said.