March 2, 2014 -- Updated 1553 GMT (2353 HKT)
A day after men armed with long knives stormed a railway station in the
city of Kunming, killing dozens, authorities say it was a premeditated
terrorist attack. FULL STORY
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ATTACKERS CARRIED LONG KNIVES
China train station killings described as a terrorist attack
March 2, 2014 -- Updated 1435 GMT (2235 HKT)
China blames separatists for knife attack
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- "We saw two people carrying big cleavers hacking whoever is in the way," witness says
- Police say separatist group from northwest China to blame
- Four suspects reported killed; other attackers still being sought
- Train departures are not affected
Police shot dead at least
four of the attackers -- who numbered more than 10 -- and were looking
for the others, officials told the state-run Xinhua News Agency.
Premier Li Keqiang asked that security in public places be tightened.
But for Chen Guizhen, that request came too late.
The 50-year-old woman told Xinhua at the hospital that her husband, Xiong Wenguang, 59, was killed in the attack.
"Why are the terrorists so cruel?" asked Chen, her husband's bloody ID card shaking in her hands.
Map shows location of attack
Photos: Deadly China railway attack
Mass stabbing at Chinese rail station
The attackers gave no warning.
Liu Chen, a 19-year-old
student from Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, was at
the station to buy tickets when the attack began.
"At first I thought it was just someone fighting, but then I saw blood and heard people scream, and I just ran," she said.
Lu Haiyan said the slaughter began while she and a friend were standing in the ticket hall of the train station.
"Suddenly, many people
started running around crazily," she said on Tencent Weibo, a Chinese
equivalent of Twitter. "We saw two people carrying big cleavers hacking
whoever is in the way. They almost got to my back. Then I lost contact
with (my friend) and I saw blood splashing in front of me."
As is common in the aftermath of attacks, the casualty figures were in flux: in the same story, Xinhua reported that at least 28 civilians had been killed and 113 wounded and that 29 were confirmed dead and more than 130 wounded.
Members of a separatist
group from Xinjiang, in northwest China, are believed to have carried
out the assault, authorities said. The report referred to them as
terrorists.
Police said that, in addition to killing at least four attackers, they had shot and wounded a female suspect.
Train departures were not affected, Xinhua reported, citing the railway bureau.
In the aftermath,
postings on Sina Weibo, another Twitter-like social medium, showed local
police patrolling the station, where bodies lay on the ground in blood.
Chinese state TV showed investigators placing a knife -- its blade at
least 2 feet long -- into an evidence bag.
Mass knife attacks are not unprecedented in China. Some occurred in 2010 and 2012, but the attacks happened at schools and didn't appear to have political connections.
Chinese President Xi
Jinping urged law enforcement "to investigate and solve the case and
punish the terrorists in accordance with the law," according to Xinhua.
Kunming's railway station is one of the largest in southwest China.
Two weeks ago, 11 "terrorists" died in the Xinjiang region, Xinhua reported.
Frequent outbreaks of
violence have beset Xinjiang, a resource-rich area where the arrival of
waves of Han Chinese people over the decades has fueled tensions with
the Uyghurs, a Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim ethnic group.
CNN's Phil Gast contributed to this report.
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