"Mass Assault Belatedly Reported in China's Far West."
-headline, New York Times.
BEIJING — China’s state news media on Tuesday belatedly reported what was described as a terror attack in the troubled far west region of Xinjiang, where dozens of people were said to have been killed or wounded by assailants with knives and axes.
The assault happened on Monday, the official news agency Xinhua and other state outlets reported. It was not clear why the authorities took more than a day to release the news, although much of the violence in the region goes unreported by China’s tightly controlled media.
