The Xinjiang Communist Party Committee news website "www.ts.cn" disclosed that two people were killed and several more injured in at least three explosions in Luntai county, on the northern edge of the Taklamakan desert in central Xinjiang on September 21, 2014. Two more blasts occurred later in a nearby township. The provincial Party website added that "At present, all the injured have been sent to hospital for full treatment, local social order is normal, and the cases are being investigated."