China Station Stabbing Rampage Leaves Six Hurt

A knife-wielding gang left six people wounded in a stabbing rampage at a Chinese railway station - the country's latest in a series of mass attacks.

Reports say up to four people launched the assault in Guangzhou, southern China.

No reason has been given for the stabbings, but fears over militancy have grown in China after a car burst into flames on the edge of Beijing's Tiananmen Square in October and 29 people were stabbed to death in March in Kunming.

The government blamed militants from the far-western region of Xinjiang for both those attacks.

Guangzhou police said officers "arrived quickly on the scene" after the stabbings began on Tuesday and shot one of the attackers.

"After verbal warnings were ineffective, police fired, hitting one male suspect holding a knife and subdued him," the force said in an online statement.

People look on as officers investigate the scene of the attack

Police did not identify the attackers and it was not clear if the number of wounded included the assailants.

State-run newspaper the Nanfang Daily said police had captured a suspect who fled from the scene after the attack.

The Guangzhou Journal newspaper reported the attackers carried half-metre (20-inch) knives, wore white clothes, including white hats, and launched their assault as passengers were leaving the station.

Some other reports on Chinese media outlets said there were four attackers in total.

Photos circulated online in state media showed police cordoning off an empty plaza, with an ambulance parked nearby and spots of blood on the ground.

Chinese officials blamed religious extremists for a bomb and knife attack at a train station in Urumqi, regional capital of Xinjiang, last Wednesday that killed one bystander and wounded 79.

The government called the attackers "terrorists", a term it uses to describe Islamist militants and separatists in Xinjiang who have waged a sometimes violent campaign for an independent East Turkestan state.

In March, another hacking attack that left 33 people injured at a train station in southwest China was blamed on separatists in the country's far west.

Exiles and many rights groups say the real cause of the unrest in Xinjiang is China's heavy-handed policies, including curbs on Islam and the culture and language of the Muslim Uighur people.

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