More than
10 knife-wielding attackers slashed people at a train station in a southwestern
city in what authorities called a terrorist attack by ethnic separatists in
western China, and police fatally shot four of the assailants, leaving 33
people dead and 130 others wounded, state media said.
The
attackers, most of them dressed in black, stormed the Kunming train station in
Yunnan province and started attacking people Saturday evening, according to
witnesses.
Student
Qiao Yunao was waiting to catch a train at the station when people starting
crying and running, and then 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. "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."
Another
witness, Yang Haifei, said he saw a person "come straight at me with a
long knife and I ran away with everyone." People who were slow to escape
ended up severely injured, he told the official Xinhua News Agency. "They
just fell on the ground," Yang said from a hospital where he was being
treated for chest and back wounds.
Source-foxnews.com
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