**An aircraft bound for Urumqi in China’s restive Xinjiang region has been threatened with a bomb attack, Chinese state news agency Xinhua reports.**Airport officials were told not to let the plane to land, Xinhua said. It later said the plane had landed in Kandahar, citing diplomatic sources.
The agency had earlier reported the incident as a hijacking.
It did not specify whether the threat to the plane came from on board the aircraft itself, in its latest report.
The incident comes a month after about 200 people died in ethnic violence in Xinjiang’s regional capital, Urumqi.
Deadly clashes erupted between Han Chinese and the region’s Muslim Uighurs, some of whom want greater autonomy from China.
Since then China has maintained a heavy security presence in the region.