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'Dozens die' in China knife attack at Kunming train station China mass stabbing: Deadly knife attack in Kunming
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An attack by knife-wielding men at a train station in Kunming in south-west China, has left at least 27 dead, the state news agency Xinhua says. 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 109 people are said to have been hurt. Nothing is known so far about the motivation behind the attack, in which 113 people are said to have been hurt.
Xinhua gave few further details, and the men responsible have not been identified. However, authorities described it as an "organised, premeditated, violent terrorist attack".
A local television station said several of the attackers had been shot by police, according to Associated Press. Five suspects were shot dead but their identities have not been confirmed, Xinhua said.
Chinese state television described the incident as a "violent terror attack".
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Eyewitnesses said that the men started attacking people at random. Witnesses said that the men attacked people at random.
Social media users in China have been posting pictures of the attack on the internet, but correspondents say they are being taken down. 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.
Mass stabbings are not uncommon in China, but none have been recently reported on this scale. 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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