6 hurt in another rail station attack
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SIX people were injured when a man brandishing a knife attacked passengers at a railway station in Guangzhou, capital of south China’s Guangdong Province, yesterday.
Police on patrol in the square at Guangzhou Railway Station shot the attacker when he failed to respond to a warning. He is being treated in hospital. The suspect was not carrying any identity card and his identity has yet to be confirmed, Guangzhou police said late yesterday.
Police in major cities, including Shanghai, Kunming and Lhasa, have been allowed to carry guns on patrol to boost security after a terror attack at a railway station in Kunming in early March left 29 people dead and more than 140 injured and a knife and bomb attack at a railway station in Urumqi where three people, including two terrorists, were killed and about 80 injured.
Yesterday morning’s attack in Guangzhou coincided with the arrival of the K366 train from Kunming.
The attack did not affect railway operations, according to Xinhua news agency, citing Guangzhou Railway (Group) Corp.
A newspaper stall owner at the station told the Southern Metropolis Daily she had seen a man sitting nearby for about an hour. She said he was no more than 160 centimeters tall and wearing a white cap.
When he heard the announcement that the K366 had arrived, he took out a long knife and began hacking at people at random, she said. When police confronted him he tried to attack them too and two shots were fired.
A porter surnamed Chen told the newspaper that one of his coworkers tripped up the attacker from behind and pinned him to the ground. Three police officers then took him into custody.
Police said the victims, all Chinese, are out of danger. Four of them, two women and two men, were taken to a local hospital before being transferred to a bigger military hospital.
Three were being treated for serious lacerations to necks and arms while Liu Yuying had broken her leg when she fell as she fled. The other two victims were less seriously injured.
Liu told China News Service she was with a tour group from Baotou City in north China on a trip to Guangzhou. She said the injured included a brother and sister from the group.
Yesterday’s attack was particularly terrifying for a K366 passenger surnamed Yang. It brought back memories of the Kunming attack on March 1.
Yang said he dropped his luggage and ran as fast as he could to escape when he witnessed yesterday’s stabbings.
He told the Southern Metropolis Daily he was saying goodbye to a friend at the Kunming station when he heard someone shouting about “people being hacked.”
“And today, I was just stepping out of the station, I encountered an attack again,” he said.
Yang said he saw yesterday’s attacker cut one man on the neck leaving him bleeding from the wound. He said he was in such a state of shock he just sat in the station square, unable to move, for about two hours.
After the Urumqi attack, President Xi Jinping said: “The battle to combat violence and terrorism will not allow even a moment of slackness, and decisive actions must be taken to resolutely suppress the terrorists’ rampant momentum.”
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