"Six injured in knife attack at China's Guangzhou railway station - AFP Tuesday, May 06, 2014
BEIJING - Six people were wounded in a knife attack at a train station in China on Tuesday, police said, the latest in a string of violent episodes at public transport hubs.
Police shot one of the attackers at the train station in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou, the city's public security bureau said in a statement on its microblog, adding all six injured had been hospitalised.
Four attackers were involved, the People's Daily newspaper reported on its verified microblog, adding they were wearing white caps and police opened fire on them after they ignored warnings.
One of the men died, one was arrested, and two escaped, said the newspaper, the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party.
The incident comes less than a week after a deadly explosion at a railway station in the restive Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang that left two attackers and a civilian dead, and 79 people wounded.
It also follows a March attack at a railway station in the southwestern city of Kunming, in which machete-wielding attackers killed 29 people and wounded 143 in what many in China have dubbed the country's "9/11"."
These are really disturbing development in China. I shuddered to think what would the carnages be IF the attackers had access to guns that we read every now and then in massacre in the USA!
Lessons for me are:
1. with the 3rd strikes in the last 2 months, anyone who travel by rails in China simply has to assume a heightened alert posture and be very suspicious of any unusual people and movements. It is getting dangerous!;
2. there is no word on who are responsible but it not be surprising if the attackers are from Xinjiang. If they are indeed from Xinjiang region, things will get a lot uglier before turning for the better. President Xi has a lot of at stakes to make this go away as he continues his crusade to 'eradicate the nation of the rampant corruption that is turning ordinary people into foes of the ruling CCP'! Something he and his team simply cannot tolerate and allow to happen!! With the desire to get 'quick results', it is conceivable that some will take the short-cut and that may involve a few 'necessary violation of human rights' cases to get them! Hopefully, a good balance is struck and some good PR work to support this initiative!;
3. every time I read about 'terrorists' attacks' in other parts of the world, I often asked myself WOULD it ever happened in Singapore, my Little Red Dot of a country? We supposedly had one close call with some extremists 'surveying' our MRT stations a number of years ago arrested before they could act out their intentions. Since then we had been relatively relax. The nation still has very good social harmony with the various races and nationalities living in a dense environment. Keep it that way as long as we ensure 'religions' do not come into play!
Police shot one of the attackers at the train station in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou, the city's public security bureau said in a statement on its microblog, adding all six injured had been hospitalised.
Four attackers were involved, the People's Daily newspaper reported on its verified microblog, adding they were wearing white caps and police opened fire on them after they ignored warnings.
One of the men died, one was arrested, and two escaped, said the newspaper, the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party.
The incident comes less than a week after a deadly explosion at a railway station in the restive Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang that left two attackers and a civilian dead, and 79 people wounded.
It also follows a March attack at a railway station in the southwestern city of Kunming, in which machete-wielding attackers killed 29 people and wounded 143 in what many in China have dubbed the country's "9/11"."
These are really disturbing development in China. I shuddered to think what would the carnages be IF the attackers had access to guns that we read every now and then in massacre in the USA!
Lessons for me are:
1. with the 3rd strikes in the last 2 months, anyone who travel by rails in China simply has to assume a heightened alert posture and be very suspicious of any unusual people and movements. It is getting dangerous!;
2. there is no word on who are responsible but it not be surprising if the attackers are from Xinjiang. If they are indeed from Xinjiang region, things will get a lot uglier before turning for the better. President Xi has a lot of at stakes to make this go away as he continues his crusade to 'eradicate the nation of the rampant corruption that is turning ordinary people into foes of the ruling CCP'! Something he and his team simply cannot tolerate and allow to happen!! With the desire to get 'quick results', it is conceivable that some will take the short-cut and that may involve a few 'necessary violation of human rights' cases to get them! Hopefully, a good balance is struck and some good PR work to support this initiative!;
3. every time I read about 'terrorists' attacks' in other parts of the world, I often asked myself WOULD it ever happened in Singapore, my Little Red Dot of a country? We supposedly had one close call with some extremists 'surveying' our MRT stations a number of years ago arrested before they could act out their intentions. Since then we had been relatively relax. The nation still has very good social harmony with the various races and nationalities living in a dense environment. Keep it that way as long as we ensure 'religions' do not come into play!
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