A mother and her daughter who survived rioters' attack in the July 5 violence in northwest China's Urumqi City had denounced a UK website report, which had wrongly blamed their sufferings on Chinese riot police.
Pictures on the website of London Evening Standard on July 7 showed Gao Wenhong and her daughter Yang Shuya standing in a street in Urumqi, holding each other's arms and soaked in blood with terror in eyes.
The captions read "Women fought with riot police as fresh protests broke out in China's volatile Xinjiang province today" and "Blood and defiance: two women comfort each other after being attacked by police."
"We were shocked at the wrong information provided by the website," said Gao on Tuesday at her house in Jichang City. "Actually, we were trying to seek help from police after being attacked by the rioters."
"I have to keep myself busy everyday to forget the nightmare," she said. "I felt I was hurt again by the report."
Gao said she and nine other family members were visiting her daughter in the People's Hospital in Urumqi that night, as her daughter was to receive a heart operation the next day.
