URUMQI, CHINA - The death toll from ethnic unrest in northwestern China's Urumqi city on July 5 has risen by eight to 192, Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday.

No breakdown of the new toll was given, but when reporting the earlier 184 deaths, Xinhua said 137 of the victims were from China's dominant Han ethnic group, 46 were Muslim Uighurs and one was from the Hui minority.

In giving the latest toll, Xinhua cited an unnamed Urumqi government official. The Xinjiang government press office in Urumqi told AFP it did not yet have the updated toll.

Over 1,600 people were injured in the ethnic unrest, 74 of whom were in critical condition as of Sunday, Xinhua said earlier.