At Least 27 Dead, Dozens Injured in China Knife-Wielding Spree

Started by walkstall, March 01, 2014, 12:19:47 PM

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See what happens when you take guns away.  It there a will there a way.  Where is all the anti knife people? 

A group of knife-wielding men attacked a train station in southwestern China on Saturday, leaving at least 27 dead and more than 100 injured, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Xinhua did not provide more details about the evening attack at the Kunming Railway Station in Yunnan province, and the attackers were not identified. Kunming city police said they did not have immediate information to release.

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From Aljazera

At least 28 killed and 113 injured when knife-wielding men stormed Kunming Railway Station in southwest Yunnan province.


A group of knife-wielding men have attacked a train station in southwestern China, leaving at least 28 people dead and 113 injured, the official Xinhua news agency said, making it one of the deadliest attacks in China in recent years.

The incident which happened at around 9 pm local time (1:00pm GMT) at Kunming Railway Station in Yunnan province "was an organised, premeditated violent terrorist attack" carried out by "unidentified knife-wielding people", Xinhua reported, citing authorities.

"A group of men carrying weapons burst into the train station plaza and the ticket hall, stabbing whoever they saw," it said.

The attackers were dressed in similar black clothing, the official China News Service said, citing eyewitnesses.

Xinhua also reported that five of the attackers were shot by police at the train station and are "chasing the rest". Officers sealed off a wide area around the station while police were questioning people at the site.

Victims were being transported to local hospitals around the city, according to an AFP news agency report.

A knife victim named Yang Haifei, who was wounded in the chest and back, told Xinhua that he had been buying a train ticket when the attackers approached and had tried to escape with the crowd. "I saw a person come straight at me with a long knife and I ran away with everyone," he said, while others "simply fell on the ground".

Photos circulating online showed scattered luggage and bodies lying on the floor in blood, although the authenticity of the images could not be verified.

China's top security official Meng Jianzhu will travel to Kunming to oversee its handling, CCTV said, while President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang sent condolences to the victims and their families.

Yunnan has no history of violent attacks, and the motive for the stabbings was not immediately clear, nor the identity or ethnicity of the perpetrators.

However, China has seen a number of mass stabbings and other attacks in recent times carried out by people bearing grudges against society.

China has blamed similar incidents in the past on Muslim fighters operating in the restive far western region of Xinjiang, though such attacks have generally been limited to Xinjiang itself.

The attack comes at a sensitive time as China gears up for the annual meeting of parliament, which opens in Beijing on Wednesday and is normally accompanied by a tightening of security across the
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Quote from: walkstall on March 01, 2014, 12:19:47 PM
See what happens when you take guns away.  It there a will there a way.  Where is all the anti knife people? 

A group of knife-wielding men attacked a train station in southwestern China on Saturday, leaving at least 27 dead and more than 100 injured, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Xinhua did not provide more details about the evening attack at the Kunming Railway Station in Yunnan province, and the attackers were not identified. Kunming city police said they did not have immediate information to release.

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They must've had some of those full-auto Bowies or maybe those cheap Chinese-made AK-Bayonets. Eric Holder was probably involved somehow...
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Isn't China having problems with so group of Muslims, in one of their western provinces? Since it's difficult to get guns and explosives in China, and Muslims have a known tendency to chop heads, I was just wondering.
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Quote from: mdgiles on March 02, 2014, 11:58:56 AM
Isn't China having problems with so group of Muslims, in one of their western provinces? Since it's difficult to get guns and explosives in China, and Muslims have a known tendency to chop heads, I was just wondering.

I read something about that yesterday in one of the stories about this attack. I find it interesting that a common enemy the Chinese, Russians and the West has is Muslim extremists.
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