URUMQI, China -- Crowds of Muslim Uighurs ignored orders canceling Friday prayers and talked their way in to at least two mosques in neighborhoods hit by ethnic tensions here, as officials raised the death toll and released the first ethnic breakdown of casualties in riots Sunday.

The official toll rose to 184 from 156, according to the official Xinhua news agency. Xinhua reported 137 of the victims belonged to the dominant Han Chinese ethnic group, 46 of those killed were Uighur, and one was a member of the Hui ethnic group.

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