The Telegraph covers a Xinhua report that thousands of people clashed with police in Shenzhen today. Few other details were given:
It offered no further details of the incident mentioned in an “urgent” report, but fights occasionally break out between the authorities and civilian population when people are forcibly moved from their homes or land when it is to be developed for industry.
The clashes in Shenzhen followed just hours after anti-mainland protesters clashed with riot police in Taiwan at the end of a week of talks between Taipei politicians and and envoys from Beijing.
Update: More details are emerging about the incident. From Xinhua:
A traffic police detachment was assaulted by local people from Friday afternoon to early Saturday morning after the death of a motorcyclist in China’s southern city of Shenzhen, the city’s public security bureau said.
[…] At 2:30 p.m., the relatives of the dead motorcyclist carried Li’s body to this police station, smashed things and set off firecrackers.
As of 5:00 p.m. Friday, more than 400 people gathered at the police detachment and over 2,000 people watched nearby. Some people threw in stones and set fire to a police car.
After the accident, officials of Bao’an District and the city government were present to cope with the situation.
Read a Reuters report here.
