ix wounded in knife attack at Chinese train station: police
BEIJING, May 06, 2014 (AFP) - Six people were wounded in a knife
attack at a Chinese train station Tuesday, police said, after a string of
violent episodes at transport hubs authorities blame on "terrorists" from the
restive region of Xinjiang.
Police shot one of the attackers at the train station in the southern
metropolis of Guangzhou, the city's public security bureau said in a statement
on its microblog, adding all six injured had been hospitalised.
Four attackers were involved, the People's Daily newspaper reported on its
verified microblog, adding they were wearing white caps and police opened fire
on them after they ignored warnings.
One of the men died, one was arrested, and two escaped, said the newspaper,
the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party.
The incident comes less than a week after a deadly explosion left two
attackers and a civilian dead, and 79 people wounded, at a railway station in
Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur minority.
It also follows a March attack at a railway station in the southwestern
city of Kunming, in which machete-wielding attackers killed 29 people and
wounded 143 in what many in China have dubbed the country's "9/11".
Photos of the aftermath of Tuesday's attack in Guangzhou circulated widely
on Chinese social media sites, with many users expressing shock and outrage.
One image on Sina Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter, showed a man, his
shirt stained with blood, being carried from the station by three men as
passers-by watched.
Another showed a crowd of hundreds gathered outside the station's main
square, which was cordoned off by police as emergency personnel loaded people
into an ambulance.
"Guangzhou has become really unsafe!" one Weibo user wrote. "Next time I
see someone wearing a white hat, I'm heading the other way."
According to the Voice of China radio station, one of the attackers chopped
a victim in the neck. At least two of the victims were women, it added.
Mass violent incidents in China are rare but have been on the rise in
recent months, with authorities pointing the finger at religious extremists
from Xinjiang.
Last week's attack in Urumqi came as Chinese President Xi Jinping was
wrapping up an "inspection tour" of the volatile region, during which he had
called for a "strike-first" strategy to fight terrorism.
fms/slb/lm
China-unrest-Guangdong
AFP
ix wounded in knife attack at Chinese train station: police
BEIJING, May 06, 2014 (AFP) - Six people were wounded in a knife
attack at a Chinese train station Tuesday, police said, after a string of
violent episodes at transport hubs authorities blame on "terrorists" from the
restive region of Xinjiang.
Police shot one of the attackers at the train station in the southern
metropolis of Guangzhou, the city's public security bureau said in a statement
on its microblog, adding all six injured had been hospitalised.
Four attackers were involved, the People's Daily newspaper reported on its
verified microblog, adding they were wearing white caps and police opened fire
on them after they ignored warnings.
One of the men died, one was arrested, and two escaped, said the newspaper,
the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party.
The incident comes less than a week after a deadly explosion left two
attackers and a civilian dead, and 79 people wounded, at a railway station in
Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur minority.
It also follows a March attack at a railway station in the southwestern
city of Kunming, in which machete-wielding attackers killed 29 people and
wounded 143 in what many in China have dubbed the country's "9/11".
Photos of the aftermath of Tuesday's attack in Guangzhou circulated widely
on Chinese social media sites, with many users expressing shock and outrage.
One image on Sina Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter, showed a man, his
shirt stained with blood, being carried from the station by three men as
passers-by watched.
Another showed a crowd of hundreds gathered outside the station's main
square, which was cordoned off by police as emergency personnel loaded people
into an ambulance.
"Guangzhou has become really unsafe!" one Weibo user wrote. "Next time I
see someone wearing a white hat, I'm heading the other way."
According to the Voice of China radio station, one of the attackers chopped
a victim in the neck. At least two of the victims were women, it added.
Mass violent incidents in China are rare but have been on the rise in
recent months, with authorities pointing the finger at religious extremists
from Xinjiang.
Last week's attack in Urumqi came as Chinese President Xi Jinping was
wrapping up an "inspection tour" of the volatile region, during which he had
called for a "strike-first" strategy to fight terrorism.
fms/slb/lm
China-unrest-Guangdong
AFP
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