BEIJING: An explosion on Thursday hit Urumqi, capital of the restive Chinese region of Xinjiang which is home to mostly Muslim Uighurs, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

An unknown number of people were killed and injured in the attack on an open-air market, the report said.

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