China Train Station Stabbings

MangoMachine

27 killed and 100 people wounded in a mass stabbing, crazy stuff!

darkpagandeath

MangoMachine wrote: »

27 killed and 100 people wounded in a mass stabbing, crazy stuff!

Yes I gleaned this from your link to the extensive new report.

The Backwards Man

http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0301/507653-china-stabbing-train/

Waitsian

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Yes I gleaned this from your link to the extensive new report.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-26402367


Men in uniform, apparently. Seems very odd.

Riamfada

Ninjas

MangoMachine

mod9maple wrote: »

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-26402367


Men in uniform, apparently. Seems very odd.

Terrorist organisation I suppose.

The Backwards Man

Riamfada wrote: »

Ninjas

Japanese invaders?

FouxDaFaFa

Al Jazeera.

A group of knife-wielding men have attacked a train station in southwestern China, leaving at least 27 people dead and 109 injured, the official Xinhua news agency said, making it one of the deadliest attacks in China in recent years.


Xinhua did not provide more details about the attack that took place late on Saturday evening at the Kunming Railway Station in Yunnan province, and the attackers were not identified.
Kunming city police did not have immediate information to release.


The state-run Yunnan News said that the men were wearing uniforms when they stormed the railway station and that gunshots were heard after police responded, reported the Associated Press.
Local television station K6 reported that several of the attackers were shot by police and that victims were being transported to local hospitals around the city, according to an AFP news agency report.
Photos circulating online showed scattered luggage and bodies lying on the floor in blood, although the authenticity of the images could not be verified.


State television said on its official microblog that domestic security chief Meng Jianzhu was on his way to the scene.
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.

A Dub in Glasgo

It's railway station

Banjo String

Shinobi.

woodoo

Looks like it is Islamic Extremists

MangoMachine

woodoo wrote: »

Looks like it is Islamic Extremists

As per usual.

donvito99

That's horrendous. Usual snarky remarks to follow, I suppose.

wazky

MangoMachine wrote: »

As per usual.

Or the Morbegs, I never trusted those hairy bastards.

FouxDaFaFa

woodoo wrote: »

Looks like it is Islamic Extremists

Source?

I don't think anything has been confirmed yet but I'm hearing Uyghur separatists bandied about a bit.

zetalambda

Some pictures from the scene. Note the people withdrawing cash from the ATM's normally with dead bodies lying around them and the girl calmly walking around while on her iPhone updating her Facebook status!

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=290_1393687533

MangoMachine

zetalambda wrote: »

Some pictures from the scene. Note the people withdrawing cash from the ATM's normally as if nothing was happening around them and the girl calmly walking through dead bodies while on her iPhone sending a tweet!

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=290_1393687533

Strange, totally different mentality towards life in China it seems.

zetalambda

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

It's railway station

Yeah, all the Kindergartens were closed.

FouxDaFaFa

zetalambda wrote: »

Some pictures from the scene. Note the people withdrawing cash from the ATM's normally with dead bodies lying around them and the girl calmly walking around while on her iPhone updating her Facebook status!

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=290_1393687533

Well, she could have been doing anything. Texting her family to say she's okay, checking the news to see if it's safe to get public transport home, booking a hostel for the night, etc.

Or, she could have been on twitter or something. Shock does strange things to people.

2ygb4cmqetsjhx

Having worked in China the pictures dont surprise me. Lots of the Chinese are so afraid to doing soething wrong that it's safer to not act and save face. Initiative and independant thought are really not encouraged in China. The people withdrawing money are probably in Shock and doing the very Chinese approach to a problem. If we don't mention it it is not there.

The Diabolical Monocle

Ill bet on corrupt higher-up city officials not paying off/stealing from/insulting a mob boss.


All to get some police chief or politician fired.

MangoMachine

Isabella Fast Court wrote: »

Having worked in China the pictures dont surprise me. Lots of the Chinese are so afraid to doing soething wrong that it's safer to not act and save face. Initiative and independant thought are really not encouraged in China. The people withdrawing money are probably in Shock and doing the very Chinese approach to a problem. If we don't mention it it is not there.

Yeah I've heard stories of people suffering heart attacks etc in public and the Chinese people just turn a blind eye to it.

biko

Scary stuff, one moment you're waiting on a train and the next you're dead because a group of nutjobs have decided you're an easy target.

I don't see any confirmations on the responsible group yet.

hfallada

I have been to China and every station has xray machines for bags and a pat down when going onto platforms. But the staff generally didn't give a **** about security.


China has an issue with Islamic extremist but it isn't reported in the west.

MangoMachine

hfallada wrote: »

I have been to China and every station has xray machines for bags and a pat down when going onto platforms. But the staff generally didn't give a **** about security.


China has an issue with Islamic extremist but it isn't reported in the west.

Yes, the news is so censored you couldn't be totally sure of the 'nitty-grittys'.

Micky Dolenz

Major incident. Police say they have killed 5 and are looking for 5 more.

Makes you think of how easy a target you are when you are at a bus station or concert etc. Scary.

More here

biko

Maybe it's just me but could this be the work of the "no spitting on floor" and the "you can't smoke" here brigade?

shampoosuicide

biko wrote: »

Maybe it's just me but could this be the work of the "no spitting on floor" and the "you can't smoke" here brigade?

eh?

biko

If you've been to China in makes sense.

biko

biko wrote: »

If you've been to China in makes sense.

for those of us who have not, can you elaborate ?

jank

The natural response to this is obviously start a political campaign to ban cutlery and climb on a high horse that this would never happen in Ireland….

RIP to those who died.

PizzamanIRL

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

It's railway station

I feel sorry for people like you.

fr336

MangoMachine wrote: »

Strange, totally different mentality towards life in China it seems.

You should have seen the people in London when that soldier was killed on the street.

MadsL

MangoMachine wrote: »

Terrorist organisation I suppose.

World's first terrorist attack using knives?

wazky

MadsL wrote: »

World's first terrorist attack using knives?

The recession knows no bounds.

323

MadsL wrote: »

World's first terrorist attack using knives?

Hardly. In the last year alone, Woolwich machete attack, Nairobi and several incidents in the Central African Republic and elsewhere in Africa come to mind?

As a weapon of terror the machete is just that... friggin terrifying.

0958

MadsL wrote: »

World's first terrorist attack using knives?

There are terrorists! 2 women were involved.
Do you really think knives are able to kill 30 prople? I saw those weapon
pics before there are machetes

claystevens

0958 wrote: »

There are terrorists! 2 women were involved.
Do you really think knives are able to kill 30 prople? I saw those weapon
pics before there are machetes

It is more like a blade. The 3 runners have been arrested now.

0958

claystevens wrote: »

It is more like a blade. The 3 runners have been arrested now.

Kunming 3.01 terrorist attack



Flag and "knives" were found on-site

Another stabbing in China today

Five people were stabbed to death Friday morning at a market in the capital of Hunan Province in central China. Local media report that several Uighur “naan peddlers” suddenly went on a knifing rampage after a disagreement among food stall owners escalated into violence.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/03/14/three-killed-another-injured-in-latest-chinese-knife-attack/?tid=pm_national_pop

Hazys

Its rumored to be Tibet protesters

MangoMachine

This will be the start of many Chinese terror attacks I reckon, once these attacks begin they usually run and continue for a long time.

AndonHandon

Knife-wielding groups of people organising themselves into a mob to go on a knifing spree are not all too uncommon in China. It isn't religious or political, just general anger at society. The equivalent to our more passice Occupy types.