A knife-wielding gang slaughtered at least 33 people and injured more than
130 at a railway station in China.
The group of men, said to be separatists from the north-western Xinjiang
region, stormed Kunming Station attacking passengers and staff.
The attack reportedly lasted just 12 minutes.
Several of the killers were said to have been shot by police.
Horrific pictures of dead bodies and scattered luggage in pools of blood
started have been shared online.
Yang Haifei told how he was attacked as he was buying a ticket.
He said: "I saw a person come straight at me with a long knife and I
ran away with everyone."
The mass stabbing, which left at least 113 people injured, is one of the
most grisly in China in recent years.
The state-run Yunnan News said the men were wearing uniforms and gunshots
were heard after police arrived at the scene.
Local TV station K6 reported that several knifemen had been shot and
victims had been taken to local hospitals after the “violent terror attack”.
The shocking scenes left passers-by in tears as police cleared the area
amid fears knifemen were still in the area.
There was no information about who was responsible or their motives for the
massacre, in Yunnan province, south-west China.
State TV said on its official microblog that China’s domestic security
chief, Meng Jianzhu, was on his way to the station.
Mass stabbings are quite common in China but none have been reported
recently on this scale and with this many fatalities.
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