At least 27 people were killed and over a hundred injured in a ‘violent terror attack’ at a railway station at Kunming in southwestern China.
Witnesses said a group of knife-wielding people in black uniforms stormed the station in the capital of Yunnan province at around 9 pm on Saturday and started chopping the people there.
South China Morning post reports the attack left at least 27 people dead and 109 injured.
State television said the incident had been deemed a ‘violent terror attack’.
Meanwhile, state-run Xinhua news agency said several of the attackers were shot dead by police.
The news of the attack, rare in China, broke after witnesses started to share images of the victims on Chinese social media.
Witnesses said the assailants swooped on the people outside the Kunming Railway Station and continued their attack up to the ticket counters.
Local people believe the attackers were from Muslim-dominated restive Xinjiang autonomous region of China.
Sunday Morning Post quoted a worker at a hotel near the railway station as saying: “People are rushing towards our hotel. We heard that the attackers are dressed in black, and they are Uygurs.”
Panic gripped the city following the incident.
Source: bdnews24
