Overnight on 25–26 June, tensions flared at the factory, leading to a full-blown ethnic brawl between Uyghurs and Han Chinese. As a result of the fighting, 2 Uyghurs died and 118 people were injured,[1] 16 of them seriously.[16] Of the injured, 79 were Uyghurs and 39 were Han.[17] 400 police[4] and 50 anti-riot vehicles[18] were mobilised.