URUMQI: Some Uygurs in this city continued with protests yesterday morning, while others were saying they wanted nothing more than for life to return to normal.

At least 200 Uygur ethnic minority residents took to the downtown streets of the regional capital at around 10:30 am Tuesday for a protest that coincided with a visit from international reporters to Dawan Nanlu Road, one of the areas hit hardest by Sunday's riot.

Protesters, mostly women at first, cried and shouted slogans as nine busloads of journalists arrived to see the location where rioters had set on fire rows of cars at the weekend.