Knife-wielding mob kills 27 at China train station

[Syt]

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/01/world/asia/china-railway-attack/index.html?sr=fb030114china230p

Knife-wielding mob kills 27 at China train station

(CNN) -- At least 27 people were killed and 109 wounded when a group of people armed with knives stormed a railway station in the southwest Chinese city of Kunming, authorities said, according to state news agency Xinhua.

It was an organized, premeditated terrorist attack, authorities told the news agency. No motive has been provided.

Yang Haifei, a resident of Yunnan, told Xinhua he was buying a ticket when a group of people, most of them in black, rushed into the station and started attacking others.

"I saw a person come straight at me with a long knife and I ran away with everyone," he said, adding that people who were slower were severely injured. "They just fell on the ground."

He said he sustained injuries to his chest and back.

The news agency reported that several suspects had been apprehended, and questioning at the site continues.

Doctors were seen transporting injured people to a hospital, the news agency reported.

A doctor with the Kunming No.1 People's Hospital told Xinhua over the phone they're not sure of the number of casualties.

Xinhu said the Kunming Railway Station is one of the largest stations in southwest China.

[11B4V]

Ban knives.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

clearly not the octagon

[Phillip V]

We need knife control.

[Neil]

Ban knives.

Why?  Knives are useful tools.

[Valmy]

You laugh but wasn't it Britain who wanted to ban swords when somebody cut somebody up with a Katana replica?

[Valmy]

clearly not the octagon

It is a sign Languish is dying that this was the second joke made.

[LaCroix]

imagine the death toll if they had guns 

[Darth Wagtaros]

Bunch of candyass posers.  Real hard core terrorists would have strapped explosives to themselves and gone full on homicide bomber on their Chinese asses.  Word.

[garbon]

clearly not the octagon

It is a sign Languish is dying that this was the second joke made.

Have we lost anyone recently?

[jimmy olsen]

Death toll up to 33

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/02/china-mass-stabbings-yunnan-kunming-rail-station

[sbr]

Death toll up to 33

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/02/china-mass-stabbings-yunnan-kunming-rail-station

And look at that, 34 chinese babies were born in the last 5 minutes.

Of course the 17 girls were drowned in the river.

Win/win?

[celedhring]

You laugh but wasn't it Britain who wanted to ban swords when somebody cut somebody up with a Katana replica?

Swords are banned in Spain... Anything longer than 11 cm* needs special dispensation/registering or have its blade dulled IIRC.



* (yeah, I'm aware that I have left it on a silver platter for a "Spaniards have short dicks" joke)

[Eddie Teach]

clearly not the octagon

It is a sign Languish is dying that this was the second joke made.

Have we lost anyone recently?

Mongers maybe

[Queequeg]

So is China just morally insane as a country?