CHINA – At least 28 people were killed by knife-wielding attackers in a “violent  terrorist attack” at a train station in the southwestern Chinese city of  Kunming, and police shot dead five of the assailants, state media said on  Sunday.

Another 113 people were wounded, the official Xinhua news agency said,  revising down an earlier higher figure. It said the attack had taken place late  on Saturday evening.

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“It was an organized, premeditated violent terrorist attack,” Xinhua  said.

Police shot dead five of the unidentified attackers and were searching for  around five others, it said.

Kunming resident Yang Haifei told Xinhua that he was buying a ticket when he  saw a group of people, mostly wearing black, rush into the station and start  attacking bystanders.

“I saw a person come straight at me with a long knife and I ran away with  everyone,” he said, adding that the attackers caught those who were slower.  “They just fell on the ground.”

[…]  China has blamed similar incidents in the past on Islamist militants  operating in the restive far western region of Xinjiang, though such attacks  have generally been limited to Xinjiang itself.

China says its first major suicide attack, in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in  October, involved militants from Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur people,  many of whom chafe at Chinese restrictions on their culture and religion.  (read more)

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