2014 Kunming attack
| 2014 Kunming attack | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Xinjiang conflict | |
A view of Kunming Railway Station | |
| Native name | 3·01严重暴力恐怖事件 |
| Location | 25°1′3″N 102°43′15″E / 25.01750°N 102.72083°E Kunming, Yunnan |
| Date | 1 March 2014 21:12 – c. 21:24 (China Standard Time) |
| Target | Passengers of Kunming railway station |
Attack type | Mass stabbing |
| Weapons | Knives and cleavers |
| Deaths | 35 (including four perpetrators) |
| Injured | 143 |
| Perpetrators | Xinjiang separatists |
No. of participants | 8 |
| Motive | Islamic extremism |
| Convicted | 4 |
On 1 March 2014, a group of five knife-wielding terrorists attacked passengers in the Kunming Railway Station in Kunming, Yunnan, China, killing 31 people, and wounding 143 others. The attackers pulled out long-bladed knives and stabbed and slashed passengers at random. Four assailants were shot to death by police on the spot and one injured perpetrator was captured. Police announced on 3 March that the six-man, two-woman group had been neutralized after the arrest of three remaining suspects.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack and no ties to any organization have been identified; in effect the group was a singular terror cell. Xinhua News Agency and the government of Kunming said that the attack had been linked to Sunni extremists which were a faction of Xinjiang separatists. Police said that they had confiscated a black, hand-painted East Turkestan flag at the scene, which is associated with the Uyghur separatists from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.