[PHOTOS] China Mass Stabbing: 29 Die In Deadly Knife Attack With Over 130 Injured
An attack by knife-wielding men at a railway station in Kunming in south-west China has left at least 29 dead and over 130 injured.
By Sadho Ram — 02 Mar 2014, 01:10 PM — Updated almost 11 years ago
An Attack By Knife-Wielding Assailants Has Left At Least 29 People Dead And More Than 130 Wounded In An Unprecedented Attack At A Railway Station In Kunming In South-West China
At least 29 people are dead and over 130 injured after a group of knife-wielding men hacked their way through innocent people at one of China's busiest railway stations.
Distressing photos circulating online showed bodies, pools of blood and abandoned luggage scattered across the terminal floor at Kunming Railway Station in Yunnan province.
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Police have cordoned off Kunming Railway Station in Yunnan province, one of the busiest in China in a city of six million people, after a gang of knife-wielding 'terror' attackers stabbed dozens of people
Image via dailymail.co.ukAuthorities described the incident at about 9.20pm local time (1.20pm GMT) as an 'organised, premeditated, violent terrorist attack' in which at least 10 people stabbed commuters outside the station terminal before moving inside.
Chinese State Television Described The Incident As A Violent Terror Attack
Police investigate after a group of armed men attacked people at Kunming railway station, Yunnan province.
Image via dawn.comPolice Said Five Of Those Who Died At Kunming Train Station In Yunnan Province Were Assailants Shot Dead By Officers
Local television station K6 says that several of the attackers were shot by police and that victims were being transported to local hospitals.
Police officers patrol outside a railway station after an attack by knife wielding men left some 29 dead in Kunming, in southwestern China’s Yunnan province, Saturday March 1, 2014.
Image via theblaze.comMore suspects had been “controlled” at the scene, according to local media reports. Eyewitnesses said the men, dressed all in black, had attacked people indiscriminately with long knives.
16-Year-Old Student Qiao Yunao Was Waiting To Catch A Train At The Station When People Started Crying Out And Running, And Then He Saw A Man Slash Another Man's Neck, Drawing Blood
"I was freaking out, and ran to a fast food store, and many people were running in there to take refuge," she told The Associated Press via Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblog.
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Photos shared on the Chinese micro-blogging site Weibo showed bodies strewn across the floor
Image via dailymail.co.uk"I saw two attackers, both men, one with a watermelon knife and the other with a fruit knife. They were running and chopping whoever they could."
While The Attackers' Identities Were Not Yet Confirmed, Evidence At The Scene Of The Attack Showed That It Was "A Terrorist Attack Carried Out By Xinjiang Separatist Forces," Xinhua Quoted The Municipal Government As Saying
Separatists from China's northwest region of Xinjiang orchestrated the attack on a train station which left 29 dead, the Xinhua news agency reported Sunday, quoting the city government.
Photos circulated widely on the internet showed a line-up of bodies on the station floor surrounded by medical equipment. The majority of the photos are too graphic to publish
Image via dailymail.co.ukAuthorities considered it to be "an organized, premeditated violent terrorist attack." The far western region of Xinjiang is home to a simmering rebellion against Chinese rule by separatists among parts of the Muslim Uighur (pronounced WEE'-gur) population.
go.comPresident Xi Jinping And Premier Li Keqiang Have Sent Condolences To The Victims And Their Families. President Xi Urged "All-Out Efforts" To Investigate The Attack.
Chinese President Xi Jinping called for "all-out efforts" in the investigation and for the attackers to be punished "in accordance with the law", the official news agency Xinhua said.
"Severely punish in accordance with the law the violent terrorists and resolutely crack down on those who have been swollen with arrogance," Xinhua quoted the president as saying.
Witnesses Said That The Men, Who Were Mostly Dressed In Black, Attacked People At Random
A survivor named Yang Haifei, who was wounded in the back and chest, told Xinhua he had been buying a train ticket when the attackers rushed into the station.
"I saw a person come straight at me with a long knife and I ran away with everyone," he said. He added that those too slow to flee were cut down. Some who escaped were desperately looking for missing loved ones.
Yang Ziqing told Xinhua she and her husband had been waiting for a train to Shanghai "when a knife-wielding man suddenly came at them". "I can't find my husband, and his phone went unanswered," she said.
Social media Users In China Posted Pictures Of The Attack On The Internet, But Media Reports Say They Are Being Taken Down
Medics were still treating people in the station hours after the attack, said a Chinese news agency
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Travel bags surrounded by blood lie strewn across then floor of the terminal, protected by police
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Police, firefighters, paramedics and shocked citizens gathered near the station
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A witness said people ran in all directions and the slower ones were caught and hacked to death
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