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China mass stabbing: Deadly knife attack in Kunming | |
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An attack by knife-wielding men at a railway station in Kunming in south-west China has left at least 28 dead, the state news agency Xinhua says. | |
Nothing is known so far about the motivation behind the attack, in which 113 people are said to have been hurt. | |
However, authorities described it as an "organised, premeditated, violent terrorist attack". | |
Five suspects were shot dead but their identities have not been confirmed, Xinhua said. | |
Pools of blood | Pools of blood |
Witnesses said that the men 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, most of them dressed in black, 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 correspondents say they are being taken down. | |
Images seen by the BBC show men and women lying on the floor in pools of blood following the attack. | Images seen by the BBC show men and women lying on the floor in pools of blood following the attack. |
State broadcaster CCTV said top security official Meng Jianzhu would travel to Kunming to oversee the handling of the investigation. | |
President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang have sent condolences to the victims and their families, the channel added. | |
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