UPDATE: At least 28 people have been killed, and 162 others injured, in a knife attack at a train station in south-western Chinese city of Kunming.
The incident “was an organised, premeditated violent terrorist attack” carried out by “unidentified knife-wielding people”, according to state media.
Police shot dead at least five of the alleged perpetrators at the train station in south-western Yunnan province, according to local television station K6.
A group of knife-wielding men attacked a train station in southwestern China on Saturday, leaving at least 27 people dead and another 109 injured, the official Xinhua News Agency said, making it one of the deadliest attacks in China in recent years.
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The motive behind the attack was not immediately clear, but China has seen a number of mass stabbings and other attacks carried out by people bearing grudges against society.
