It is believed that more than 10 people took part in the attack. As well as the four who were shot yesterday, one was taken alive. The rest are still being hunted. Chinese authorities have blamed the attack on militants Muselmaniacs from the remote far western region of Xinjiang, which is home to tensions between the government and Muslim separatists.
The attack is the latest and one of the most deadly in a series of mass stabbings in the last few years.
A catalogue of random attacks, many of them on schools, began in 2010 and culminated in the massacre of 22 children and an elderly woman outside a primary school in Henan province in December 2012.
The attack was followed by one last June by gangs armed with knifes who set upon a police station and local government building in western China.
Chinese authorities say two WOMEN were part of knife-wielding terror gang which left at least 33 dead and 143 wounded after attacking a train station in China
- WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Distressing photos show bodies and blood
- Some of savage attackers were female, according to state TV reports
- One woman attacker was shot by police, another captured and hospitalised
- ‘Terrorist’ rampage at was at Kunming station in Yunnan province
- Local sources say there were at least 10 attackers, many still on the run
- Authorities say it was an ‘organised, premeditated, violent terrorist attack’
- Online descriptions of the violence were deleted by government censors
- Chinese government has blamed militants from western region of Xinjiang
By DAN BLOOM and KIERAN CORCORAN/Daily Mail
Two of the knife-wielding attackers who killed 29 people and injured 143 in a frenzied attack at a Chinese railway station yesterday were women, according to state TV.
The attackers, four of whom were killed by armed police, launched the horrific attack at Kunming railway station in Yunnan province at around 9pm local time yesterday.
Distressing photos circulating online showed bodies, pools of blood and abandoned luggage scattered across the terminal floor in the wake of what authorities termed an ‘organised, premeditated, violent terrorist attack’.
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