At least six people were wounded in an attack at a railway station in Guangzhou on Tuesday, state media reported. It was the third such attack by multiple assailants at railway stations in China since March.
Guangzhou Daily, citing eyewitnesses at the scene, said there were four attackers, all wearing white caps. One was shot by the police, and another suspect was arrested, with the other two still believed to be at large. Among the six injured, one was hacked on head and neck and in critical condition, the newspaper said.
The attack was likely to further unnerve a nation that is struggling to cope with increasingly frequent attacks on civilians in high-profile public areas, including a daring assault last October at Beijing's Tiananmen gate that the authorities tied to the East Turkestan Islamic Movement and that left five dead.
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— China.org.cn (@chinaorgcn) 6 May 14
The latest attack came just a week after assailants with explosives and knives staged an assault that left three people dead — two of them believed to be attackers — and injured at least 79 outside a railroad station in Urumqi, the capital of the western Chinese region of Xinjiang.
That burst of violence occurred just after China's president, Xi Jinping, had ended a visit to the restive area. After the assault he said that China must prepare itself for a long-term fight against what he called separatist forces in Xinjiang, where members of the Uighur minority feel increasingly alienated from wider Chinese society and where Han Chinese increasingly dominate.
On March 1, a group of ethnic Uighurs slashed and killed 29 people at a railway station in Kunming. An English-language editorial by Xinhua, the state news agency, drew connections between last week's blast and the attack in March.
The identities of the assailants in Tuesday's incident were not immediately available.
Photos posted online by Chinese media showed blood spilled in a plaza cordoned off with police tape. In another image, paramedics treated an injured person while a police officer patroled while holding a long staff with a semicircle at the end. Security personnel in China have recently been given instruction on how to help subdue attackers with knives.
Austin Ramzy contributed reporting, and Patrick Zuo contributed research.
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