China mass stabbing: Deadly knife attack in Kunming
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An attack by knife-wielding men at a railway station in Kunming in south-west China has left at least 28 dead, the state news agency Xinhua says.
Nothing is known so far about the motivation behind the attack, in which 113 people are said to have been hurt.
However, authorities described it as an "organised, premeditated, violent terrorist attack".
Five suspects were shot dead but their identities have not been confirmed, Xinhua said.
Pools of blood
Witnesses said that the men attacked people at random.
A survivor named Yang Haifei, who was wounded in the back and chest, told Xinhua he had been buying a train ticket when the attackers, most of them dressed in black, rushed into the station.
"I saw a person come straight at me with a long knife and I ran away with everyone," he said.
There were scenes of shock and anguish after the attack
Authorities quickly sealed off the railway station in Kunming
Police are combing the scene of the attack
He added that those too slow to flee were cut down.
Some who escaped were desperately looking for missing loved ones.
Yang Ziqing told Xinhua she and her husband had been waiting for a train to Shanghai "when a knife-wielding man suddenly came at them".
"I can't find my husband, and his phone went unanswered," she said.
Social media users in China posted pictures of the attack on the internet, but correspondents say they are being taken down.
Images seen by the BBC show men and women lying on the floor in pools of blood following the attack.
State broadcaster CCTV said top security official Meng Jianzhu would travel to Kunming to oversee the handling of the investigation.
President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang have sent condolences to the victims and their families, the channel added.
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Cerca de las 21:00 horas del 1 de marzo en Kunming, capital de la provincia de Yunnan, un grupo de personas armadas con cuchillos de diferentes tamaños perpetró un ataque contra los usuarios de una estación ferroviaria ubicada en la mencionada capital. Como resultado, la agencia de noticias estatal Xinhua afirmó que el incidente ha dejado un saldo de por lo menos 28 muertos y más de una centena de heridos.

Algunos de los testigos que han hablado con la prensa sostuvieron que los atacantes estaban en su mayoría vestidos de negro y que, al parecer, cercenaban individuos arbitrariamente. La opinión de los funcionarios de la ciudad, por su parte, es que se trata de un ataque terrorista llevado a cabo por fuerzas separatistas procedentes de la región de Xinjiang.

El secretario general Xi Jinping y el primer ministro Li Keqiang han hecho llegar sus condolencias a las víctimas y sus familias. Li ha urgido a ciertos sectores del aparato estatal a atrapar y castigar a los terroristas, además de pedirle expresamente a los departamentos de seguridad pública que refuercen las medidas de prevención y control para garantizar la inocuidad de los espacios públicos.