CLOSER TO FINE: A Uygur woman takes her three daughters on a shopping trip in downtown Urumqi on July 12 (SHA DATI)

The capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urumqi, is getting back to normal a week after July 5's fatal riot, despite sporadic tension.

Xinhua News Agency reported that traffic jams reappeared on the city's major streets on July 13, a rare scene since the unrest.

The news agency also quoted railway authorities as saying that the situation at Urumqi's train terminal was normal. Officials on July 11 said 21,000 people used the station that day, down by 4,000 from the previous day's total.

"There are neither so-called 'waves of refugees' nor ticket scalpers in the train terminal as reported by some foreign journalists," Chen Kai, vice chief of the South Train Station of Urumqi, told Xinhua.

On July 15, the regional government said the riot's death toll had risen to 192 and hospitals had treated 1,721 injured people, 881 of whom were still hospitalized and 66 of whom were listed in critical condition.

The government will pay all medical bills for civilians injured during the riot and also grant them living subsidies during their hospitalization, said Nur Bekri, Chairman of the regional government, during a July 12 televised speech.

The government has also said that victims' families are to receive 210,000 yuan ($30,900) in compensation for each person. The compensation includes a one-time disbursement of 200,000 yuan ($29,400) and a funeral allowance of 10,000 yuan ($1,500). The government now estimates that compensation for people injured or killed during the incident would add up to more than 100 million yuan ($15 million). As of July 12, the government had already granted 4.2 million yuan ($617,000) to the families of 21 victims.

According to Xinhua, the Urumqi's Public Security Bureau on July 11 said in a notice that the situation had been put back under control, though there still had been sporadic illegal assemblies and demonstrations in some places.

Police will disperse such illegal assemblies according to the law and are entitled to take necessary measures if the crowd refuses to disperse, it said. Police will remove those who resist police orders, or will detain such people at the scene.