In pictures: At least 33 dead in China train station stabbings

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  An injured man is stretchered away by paramedics. More than 10 assailants slashed scores of people with knives at a train station in southern China, drawing police fire, in what authorities called a terrorist assault by ethnic separatists based in the far west. Reuters

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  Police fatally shot four of the assailants, arrested one and were searching for the others following the attack late Saturday at the Kunming train station in Yunnan province, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Witnesses described attackers dressed in black storming the train station and attacking people indiscriminately. AP Photo

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  A woman reacts, at the crime scene. he attackers’ identities were not yet confirmed, but evidence at the scene of the attack showed that it was “a terrorist attack carried out by Xinjiang separatist forces,” Xinhua quoted the municipal government as saying. Authorities considered it to be “an organised, premeditated violent terrorist attack.” AP Photo

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  A Chinese police investigator inspects the scene. n an indication of how seriously authorities viewed the attack — one of China’s deadliest in recent years — the country’s top police official, Politburo member Meng Jianzhu, arrived in Kunming on Sunday morning and went straight to the hospital to visit the wounded and their families, Xinhua reported. AFP Photo

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  The violence in Kunming came at a sensitive time as political leaders in Beijing prepared for Wednesday’s opening of the annual meeting of the nominal legislature where the government of President Xi Jinping will deliver its first one-year work report. AFP Photo

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  More than 60 victims were taken to Kunming No. 1 People’s Hospital, where at least a dozen bodies also could be seen, according to Xinhua reporters at the hospital. AP Photo

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  he Kunming railway station, located in the southeastern area of the city, is one of the largest in south-west China. AP Photo

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  he attack was the deadliest violence attributed to Uighur-Han conflicts since riots in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi in 2009, in which Uighurs stormed the streets of the city, targeting Han people in seemingly random violence that included killing women and children. AFP Photo

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  A few days later Han vigilante mobs armed with sticks and bats attacked Uighurs in the same city. Nearly 200 people died. Alexander F Yuan / AP Photo

More than 10 assailants slashed scores of people with knives at a train station in southern China, drawing police fire, in what authorities called a terrorist assault by ethnic separatists based in the far west, state media said Sunday. Thirty-three people were killed and 130 wounded.