Attack on China train station leaves 33 dead

BEIJING: More than 10 knife-wielding attackers slashed people at a train station in a southwestern city in what authorities called a terrorist attack by separatists in western China, and police fatally shot four of the assailants, leaving 33 people dead and 130 others wounded, state media said. The attackers, most of them dressed in black, stormed the Kunming train station in Yunnan province and started attacking people Saturday evening, according to witnesses. Student Qiao Yunao was waiting to catch a train at the station when people starting crying and running, and then saw a man slash another man´s neck, drawing blood. "I was freaking out, and ran to a fast food store, and many people were running in there to take refuge," she told The Associated Press via Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblog. "I saw two attackers, both men, one with a watermelon knife and the other with a fruit knife. They were running and chopping whoever they could." Another witness, Yang Haifei, said he saw a person "come straight at me with a long knife and I ran away with everyone." People who were slow to escape ended up severely injured, he told the official Xinhua News Agency. "They just fell on the ground," Yang said from a hospital where he was being treated for chest and back wounds. One suspect was arrested, Xinhua said. Evidence found at the scene of the attack showed that it was "a terrorist attack carried out by Xinjiang separatist forces," the agency quoted the municipal government as saying. Authorities considered it to be "an organized, premeditated violent terrorist attack. (AP)