Violence erupted Friday in Hexi, a town in the Ningxia region, after about 1,000 officers arrived to demolish a mosque that was declared an "illegal religious place", Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said.
It said 50 people were injured and more than 100 detained after several hundred members of China's Muslim Hui minority tried to stop the demolition. It cited a villager as saying two people died, but said it could not confirm that.
The Hui are one of several Muslim minority groups in China. They include descendants of Muslim immigrants from Central Asia, members of China's majority Han ethnicity who converted to Islam and several other groups.
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