https://www.scmp.com/rss/312647/feed On March 1, 2014, dozens of commuters were killed and more than a hundred others injured when a gang of knife-wielding attackers rampaged through Kunming railway station in Yunnan province, China. Authorities blamed "separatist forces from Xinjiang" for the deadly attack. Four of the alleged assailants were shot dead by police at the scene. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com China’s violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang has begun a campaign to promote ethnic unity with a call for respect of the cultures of the minorities who call the region home, while vowing another crackdown on terrorism and separatism. Hundreds of people have been killed in unrest in Xinjiang in the past few years. The government blames the violence on Islamist militants who want to establish an independent state called East Turkestan for minority Uygurs, a mostly Muslim people who speak... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1932229/china-launches-campaign-promote-ethnic-unity-violence?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1932229/china-launches-campaign-promote-ethnic-unity-violence?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 31 Mar 2016 03:27:54 +0000 China’s violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang will use entertainment to fight terrorism, holding cultural activities - which typically involve singing and dancing - to spread its law-enforcement message, state media said on Thursday. Hundreds of people have been killed over the past few years in resource-rich Xinjiang, strategically located on the borders of central Asia, in violence between the Muslim Uygur people who call the region home and ethnic majority Han Chinese. READ MORE:... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1916601/chinas-xinjiang-use-entertainment-possibly-singing-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1916601/chinas-xinjiang-use-entertainment-possibly-singing-and?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 25 Feb 2016 05:00:15 +0000 President Xi Jinping urged Central Asian states to step up the fight against religious extremism and cyberterrorism, Chinese state media said, as Beijing reaches for help across its borders in addressing security concerns in its restive Xinjiang region. Beijing says separatist groups in the far western region of Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uygur minority, are seeking to form their own state called East Turkestan and have links with militants in Central Asia as well as Pakistan. “[We] should... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1591639/xi-jinping-urges-chinas-central-asian-neighbours-help-step-extremism?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1591639/xi-jinping-urges-chinas-central-asian-neighbours-help-step-extremism?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Sep 2014 05:40:48 +0000 Three people were sentenced to death by a Yunnan court for their role in the attack at a Kunming rail station that killed 31 people and injured 141 in March. A fourth defendant, a pregnant woman, was given a life sentence, the city's intermediate people's court said on its weibo account. Iskandar Ehet, Turgun Tohtunyaz and Hasayn Muhammad were found guilty of "organising and leading a terrorist group" and intentional homicide after the one-day trial. Patigul Tohti, who was wounded and captured... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1590779/four-trial-killing-31-kunming-train-station-terrorist-attack?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1590779/four-trial-killing-31-kunming-train-station-terrorist-attack?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Sep 2014 04:30:15 +0000 Four suspects in the deadly knife attack at the Kunming railway station in March have now been charged with terror offences, state prosecutors said on Monday. Prosecutors in Yunnan province indicted the four over the attack that left 29 civilians dead and another 143 wounded on March 1, just four days before the Communist Party’s annual parliamentary sessions. Five attackers were shot by police at the scene, and four of them died while the other was captured alive. Another three suspects were... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1543686/four-suspects-deadly-kunming-station-attack-charged-terror-offences?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1543686/four-suspects-deadly-kunming-station-attack-charged-terror-offences?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:18:33 +0000 Nine more people in Xinjiang were jailed for up to 14 years on terror-related offences during a public sentencing in front of more than 3,000 people, state media said today. The government of Qapqal, close to the border with Kazakhstan, also announced arrest warrants for a further 25 people and the detention of 14 others, the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily said on its website. The crimes they have been found guilty of or are suspected of include calling for holy war, attending... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1540863/nine-jailed-terror-crimes-xinjiang-holds-latest-public-sentencing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1540863/nine-jailed-terror-crimes-xinjiang-holds-latest-public-sentencing?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Jun 2014 04:30:30 +0000 Courts in Xinjiang have jailed dozens of people in a special operation to curb the spread of audios and videos inciting terrorism, the Xinjiang Higher People's Court said yesterday. In statements posted to its official microblog, the court said 39 people were sentenced to prison terms on Tuesday after being convicted of crimes including organising and leading terrorist groups, inciting ethnic hatred, ethnic discrimination and the illegal manufacturing of guns. The troubled region in the nation's... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1517221/39-jailed-xinjiang-inciting-holy-war-spreading-terrorism?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1517221/39-jailed-xinjiang-inciting-holy-war-spreading-terrorism?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 21 May 2014 08:00:45 +0000 On the first Sunday of March, China awoke to sickening news: Attackers with knives had hacked through crowds at the train station in the southern city of Kunming , killing 29 people and injuring more than 140. Reporters leaped into action, gathering details from victims in their hospital beds. President Xi Jinping urged all-out efforts to investigate the slaughter. The incident was quickly dubbed "China's 9/11". Yet by nightfall that Monday, Xinhua had signalled it was time to move on. "Kunming... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1493735/deafening-silence-follows-kunming-railway-station-hacking-attack?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1493735/deafening-silence-follows-kunming-railway-station-hacking-attack?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:45:45 +0000 Police forces across the mainland are to receive three months of intensive weapons training. The purpose is to improve the skills of police officers on the front line, especially those assigned to street patrols or responding to emergencies, according to the Ministry of Public Security. Police on the mainland rarely carry firearms and the training would ensure officers "legally, regularly, effectively use weapons to stop or deter crime in a timely manner when handling violence that severely... https://www.scmp.com/article/1464612/police-receive-intensive-weapons-training?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/1464612/police-receive-intensive-weapons-training?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 04 Apr 2014 06:30:30 +0000 A Buddhist temple in Zhejiang province has set up a squad to deal with terrorist attacks. The unit at the Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou consists of 20 monks and 25 security officers and was formed in the wake of the knife attack at the Kunming railway station last month that officials blamed on separatist militants from Xinjiang, Xinhua reported. Twenty-nine people and four attackers were killed in the Kunming incident. The Lingyin temple near West Lake was built in AD326 and is a big tourist... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1463684/monks-famed-temple-form-anti-terror-squad?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1463684/monks-famed-temple-form-anti-terror-squad?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 03 Apr 2014 04:45:45 +0000 Twenty-nine people were killed and 143 wounded in the terrorist attack in Kunming on March 1. Forty hours after the assault, China's security authorities named Abdurehim Kurban as the mastermind. Police said "East Turkestan" flags used by Uygur separatists from Xinjiang were found at the scene. Only six months earlier, a group of these separatists staged an attack at Tiananmen Square by driving a car through a crowd then crashing it, killing five people and injuring 40 others. These two attacks... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1446972/china-must-address-grievances-fuel-terrorism?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1446972/china-must-address-grievances-fuel-terrorism?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 12 Mar 2014 04:30:45 +0000 Reverberations from the Kunming attack nearly two weeks ago are being felt thousands of kilometres away in Beijing, where Uygurs say they face stricter identity checks and worry about their prospects. "I was told by municipal officials I can no longer sell pancakes near the national library after the Kunming attack happened," said a middle-aged Uygur man, who runs a stall outside the Haidian mosque. He moved his small business, and has tried to keep a low profile, he said. "I sell fewer pancakes... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1445944/uygurs-beijing-feel-chill-after-deadly-kunming-knife-attack?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1445944/uygurs-beijing-feel-chill-after-deadly-kunming-knife-attack?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 11 Mar 2014 03:19:37 +0000 Mourners paid their respects yesterday at the site of last week's deadly knife massacre in Kunming, as delegates to the national legislative meetings in Beijing pushed for tougher anti-terrorism laws to prevent future incidents. Chrysanthemums and floral wreaths were piled around the large golden bull statue outside the Kunming railway station, where the killing began last Saturday. Chinese tradition considers the seventh day after a death an important time of mourning. Twenty-nine people were... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1443176/mourners-pay-respects-scene-kunming-knife-massacre?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1443176/mourners-pay-respects-scene-kunming-knife-massacre?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Mar 2014 19:59:39 +0000 All 60 National People’s Congress (NPC) deputies from Xinjiang sought to avoid the issue of restiveness in the region at a two-and-a-half-hour meeting that emphasised the region’s economy, and it was only when pressed by journalists that they mentioned the subject. The officials only spoke about security threats faced by the region – which is high on people’s minds after the Kunming railway attack on March 1 -- when a journalist’s question touched on terrorism at the tail end of the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1442633/npcs-xinjiang-delegates-skirt-issues-unrest-kunming-panel-meeting?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1442633/npcs-xinjiang-delegates-skirt-issues-unrest-kunming-panel-meeting?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Mar 2014 08:00:45 +0000 Beijing police issued harsh warnings this week to some of China’s most outspoken microbloggers after they posted about the social and political reasons behind the Kunming railway station attack. The internet security group of the Beijing police department accused influential microbloggers, including writer Li Chengpeng and journalist Luo Changping, of “ignoring facts” and “mistaking the black for the white”. It warned that "public figures” should “be responsible for their words” and threatened... https://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1442502/beijing-police-threaten-action-against-microbloggers-over-kunming?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1442502/beijing-police-threaten-action-against-microbloggers-over-kunming?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Mar 2014 05:45:15 +0000 A deadly knife attack at a Chinese train station last week should not be linked to ethnicity, a senior government official said, days after authorities blamed the incident on separatists from the country’s troubled far western region of Xinjiang. China says militants from Xinjiang, home to a large Muslim Uygur minority, launched a “terrorist” attack in the southwestern city of Kunming, killing at least 29 people and injuring about 140. Most Uygurs are with us in the fight against separatism... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1441795/most-uygurs-are-good-people-china-official-warns-against-linking-kunming?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1441795/most-uygurs-are-good-people-china-official-warns-against-linking-kunming?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 06 Mar 2014 05:45:15 +0000 Attackers who launched a brutal massacre at a train station in Kunming acted in desperation after a failed attempt to leave the country and become jihadists overseas, a Chinese official was on Wednesday quoted as saying. Both Beijing and Washington have described Saturday’s attack in Kunming which killed 29 people and injured 143 as terrorism. China blames separatists from its restive far-western region of Xinjiang, home to the mainly Muslim Uygur minority. These eight individuals originally... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1440951/kunming-massacre-gang-tried-become-jihadists-overseas-station-attack?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1440951/kunming-massacre-gang-tried-become-jihadists-overseas-station-attack?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 05 Mar 2014 07:34:25 +0000 Police in a city in Yunnan province where a deadly terror attack in Kunming left 29 civilians killed over the weekend have publicly apologised for evicting a young Uygur man following the massacre. The Uygur resident in the city of Dali, identified only by the name Abdul, had drawn an outpouring of sympathy after it was revealed he was ordered by local police to leave the city after his previous landlord refused to extend his lease in the wake of the bloodshed by eight Uygur terrorists. Abdul... https://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1440851/police-apologise-evicting-innocent-uygur-man-after-kunming-terror?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1440851/police-apologise-evicting-innocent-uygur-man-after-kunming-terror?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 05 Mar 2014 07:00:30 +0000 A prominent exiled Uygur leader has urged China’s government to respond calmly to a knife attack in southwestern China and not “demonise” ethnic Uygurs after Beijing blamed the mass killings on extremists from the far western region of Xinjiang. Rebiya Kadeer, President of the World Uygur Congress, also said tension could only be reduced in Xinjiang if China acknowledged rights issues the large Uygur minority faces. At this time of heightened tensions, it is important for China to deal with... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1440341/exiled-uygur-leader-rebiya-kadeer-urges-calm-after-china-attack?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1440341/exiled-uygur-leader-rebiya-kadeer-urges-calm-after-china-attack?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Mar 2014 12:23:59 +0000 A spokeswoman for the US State Department has acknowledged that the Kunming attack was an act of terrorism on Tuesday after China’s largest journalist association condemned Western media for “harbouring ulterior motives” when reporting last Saturday’s massacre that left 29 dead. When asked to comment by a Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV reporter at a regular news briefing, Jen Psaki acknowledged that “the attack appeared to be an act of terrorism” because of a lack of “any other independent... https://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1440197/us-calls-kunming-attack-act-terrorism-amid-accusations-bias?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1440197/us-calls-kunming-attack-act-terrorism-amid-accusations-bias?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Mar 2014 10:30:00 +0000 Unsourced accounts of violent attacks against civilians in major cities, some with photos of “suspects” resembling Uygurs being questioned by the police, have cropped up on China’s social media after the brutal Kunming railway station massacre on Saturday, which left 33 dead. Many of the accounts on Weibo were widely circulated by Chinese bloggers, who said they were reeling from grief and fear, before police dismissed the posts as “rumours”.  One Weibo post claimed that in Chengdu, the capital... https://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1439971/chinese-police-dispel-rumours-more-terrorist-attacks-wake-kunming?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1439971/chinese-police-dispel-rumours-more-terrorist-attacks-wake-kunming?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Mar 2014 04:45:45 +0000 The SWAT team leader sent to a Kunming train station as knife-wielding attackers hacked passengers to death said he shot five of the suspects in 15 seconds, preventing more bloodshed. After firing two warning shots, the officer shot a masked woman who lunged at him with a knife, before rapidly shooting another four of the attackers, the Legal Daily newspaper reported. Officials have blamed Uygur separatists from Xinjiang for Saturday night's attack, which killed 29 victims and wounded another... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1439991/swat-team-leader-gunned-down-five-kunming-terrorists-15-seconds?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1439991/swat-team-leader-gunned-down-five-kunming-terrorists-15-seconds?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Mar 2014 04:30:00 +0000 Twice now in the lead-up to key national political meetings that attract international attention, terrorists have targeted civilians not remotely connected with their cause. A shocking suicide car-bomb attack by an ethnic Uygur family in Tiananmen Square last October, killing two tourists, pales in comparison the latest outrage - a mass knife attack that left 29 innocent people dead at Kunming railway station in in the country's southwest. The first came ahead of the third plenary session of the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1439637/no-cause-can-justify-cowardly-attack-kunming?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1439637/no-cause-can-justify-cowardly-attack-kunming?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Mar 2014 20:30:00 +0000 Police said last night they had identified the mastermind behind Saturday's deadly attack at Kunming train station and captured three more suspects. Citing the Ministry of Public Security, Xinhua said a group of eight people was responsible for the attack, including the alleged leader it named as Abdurehim Kurban, and two women. Four suspects died at the scene and one of the women suspects was wounded and captured. The brief report did not mention whether Kurban was among those detained or... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1439549/police-name-kunming-massacre-mastermind-three-suspected-attackers-are?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1439549/police-name-kunming-massacre-mastermind-three-suspected-attackers-are?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Mar 2014 13:35:39 +0000 Meng Jianzhu, China’s security chief appeared at the opening session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference on Monday afternoon, one day after he visited Kunming. Meng flew to Kunming early on Sunday morning for an on-the-ground investigation into an alleged terrorist attack, which left 29 victims and four alleged assailants dead and 143 injured. Kunming police have arrested a female assailant believed to have been involved in the incident, while the remaining attackers are... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1439494/security-chief-meng-jianzhu-attends-cppcc-opening-session-after-visiting?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1439494/security-chief-meng-jianzhu-attends-cppcc-opening-session-after-visiting?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Mar 2014 12:15:00 +0000 When Tang Xiaoquan, 23, entered the Kunming railway station on March 1, she was a happy mother-to-be, likely eager to show her sixth-month baby bump to a friend she was picking up that day. Now, after the brutal knife attack left her grievously injured, she is reduced to a petite body beneath a tangle of medical tubes and IV drips, confronting the painful reality that she will have to give up her first child. The medicines being pumped into her veins, while helping her recover from the stabbing... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1439439/i-hate-them-killing-my-baby-mum-stabbed-kunming-faces-reality-having?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1439439/i-hate-them-killing-my-baby-mum-stabbed-kunming-faces-reality-having?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Mar 2014 10:45:15 +0000 The brutal massacre at a railway station in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming that resulted in 33 deaths on Saturday night has fuelled heated online debate. While officials have blamed “separatists” from China’s vast northwestern Xinjiang region for the terror attack, others on microblog services have called for mourning and have stressed that not all Uygurs should be seen as terrorists. Liberal legal scholar Xu Xin, who claims more than 6 million followers on his Weibo microblog, urged... https://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1439399/calmer-conciliatory-voices-clash-radical-ones-social-media-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1439399/calmer-conciliatory-voices-clash-radical-ones-social-media-china?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Mar 2014 09:45:30 +0000 With numerous casualties of Saturday’s brutal Kunming railway station attack still being treated at hospital, the city’s residents have banded together to help the victims however they could – whether through expressions of sympathy, or more importantly, in blood. Citizens flocked to blood donation centres on Sunday, after the media reported that all trauma patients and around 70 others in serious condition were still being treated at 11 hospitals in Kunming. Watch: Kunming residents queue to... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1439367/kunming-citizens-out-force-blood-donation-drive-help-railway-attack?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1439367/kunming-citizens-out-force-blood-donation-drive-help-railway-attack?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Mar 2014 08:45:45 +0000 Chinese internet users on Monday accused the United States of double standards after Washington condemned a deadly knife attack in southwest China but refrained from calling it a terrorist incident. The US embassy in China said on social media that it condemned the “terrible and senseless act of violence in Kunming” and expressed condolences to those affected in what it said was a tragedy. The attack on Saturday night saw masked assailants stab civilians at a train station, killing 29 and... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1439338/chinese-netizens-slam-us-refusing-call-kunming-attack-terrorist-act?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1439338/chinese-netizens-slam-us-refusing-call-kunming-attack-terrorist-act?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Mar 2014 08:15:00 +0000 An Uygur community in Kunming has been placed under heavy police presence after a gory attack at the city’s main railway station by knife-wielding assailants left 29 civilians dead and more than 140 injured on Saturday night.  Residents of Dashuying, a low-rent “village-like” community in the eastern part of the city,  said police officers and Swat teams had been stationed in the area since Saturday night’s horrifying attack on passengers at the railway station. The area was rumoured to be a... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1439152/trepidation-and-heavy-police-presence-kunming-uygur-neighbourhood-after?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1439152/trepidation-and-heavy-police-presence-kunming-uygur-neighbourhood-after?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Mar 2014 02:36:02 +0000 Twenty-nine civilians hacked to death by rampaging knifemen at one of China's busiest railway stations were remembered at a candlelit vigil on Sunday night as Chinese authorities said "Xinjiang separatists" were to blame for the attack. At least 33 people were killed and more than 130 wounded when about a dozen men and women dressed in black, some wearing masks, marauded through the station, slashing and stabbing at passengers indiscriminately, just after 9.30pm on Saturday. City officials... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1438797/candlelit-vigil-kunming-station-after-massacre-xinjiang-separatists?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1438797/candlelit-vigil-kunming-station-after-massacre-xinjiang-separatists?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 02 Mar 2014 14:15:00 +0000 The attack at Kunming's train station shows terrorists are targeting defenceless civilians in cities far from Xinjiang in an attempt to spread panic ahead of two key national political meetings, analysts said. Xinhua described the incident as a terrorist attack that was "planned and organised by separatist forces from Xinjiang", the restive western autonomous region, home to the mainly Muslim Uygur minority. More than 100 people have died in a string of incidents in the area over the past... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1438736/terrorists-changing-tactics-create-panic-among-civilians-analysts-say?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1438736/terrorists-changing-tactics-create-panic-among-civilians-analysts-say?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 02 Mar 2014 11:57:24 +0000 After the outpouring of grief and anger on mainland social media on Saturday night, many microbloggers were surprised to find virtually no coverage of the bloodshed on the front pages of the country's most influential newspapers yesterday. News of the horrifying attack was absent from the front pages of the Beijing News, Beijing Youth Daily, and Beijing Times, which all led with the annual parliamentary sessions. The Southern Metropolis Daily and Yangtse Evening Post had minimal coverage, with a... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1438711/while-world-reels-shock-kunming-attack-news-notably-absent-chinas-front?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1438711/while-world-reels-shock-kunming-attack-news-notably-absent-chinas-front?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 02 Mar 2014 11:19:58 +0000 Unable to pay for a budget hotel, a Yunnan couple decided instead to pass the hours until their train departed by staying inside Kunming railway station on Saturday. It was about 9pm when Xiong Wenguang, a 59-year-old migrant worker from Chuxiong county, saw a knife-wielding man rush towards them and pushed his wife out of the way, Xinhua reported. His quick thinking saved her life, but Xiong was not so lucky. He was one of the 29 killed. "We were planning to take a morning train on Sunday to... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1438589/my-mother-tripped-and-attacker-thrust-knife-her-throat-witnesses-tell?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1438589/my-mother-tripped-and-attacker-thrust-knife-her-throat-witnesses-tell?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 02 Mar 2014 07:00:45 +0000 At least 33 people were killed and more than 140 wounded after a group of knife-wielding attackers dressed in black went on the rampage in a Kunming railway station, hacking and stabbing passengers and passers-by indiscriminately. The death toll includes 29 civilian victims killed by the attackers and four alleged assailants shot dead by responding police, according to state media. One injured policeman was reported to have died on Sunday afternoon, said China's ministry of public security,... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1438306/34-dead-130-injured-knife-attack-kunming-railway-station?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1438306/34-dead-130-injured-knife-attack-kunming-railway-station?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 01 Mar 2014 16:30:15 +0000