CCTV: 3 dead in train station attack in China

[Jesus Malverde]

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Source: SFGate

Explosions Wednesday rocked a railway station in China's far-western minority region of Xinjiang and assailants slashed at arriving passengers with knives, killing three people and injuring 79 in what state media called a premeditated terrorist attack.

The violence came as President Xi Jinping wrapped up a four-day visit to the area that has witnessed rising violence against civilians and authorities blamed on radical Islamists and separatists.

The official Xinhua News Agency quoted eyewitnesses as saying at least two blasts went off at the South Station in the regional capital of Urumqi, while a large group of attackers went after passengers.

There was no immediate word on arrests and it was unclear whether Xi was still in the region at the time of the attack.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/CCTV-3-dead-in-train-station-attack-in-China-5441359.php

[onehandle]

1. The NRA clearly has its work 'cut' out for them in China.

3 killed and 79 injured? I'm sure Wayne LaPierre would love to flip those numbers.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

2. If anyone has ever been in a Chinese train station, the security is a joke.

The metal detectors are usually off, the screening is amazing (wand from, wand back, no pat down) and the screeners at the videos are usually sound asleep.

Even after Kunming, nothing changed really. If this happens in Beijing, watch it change. If some powerful CCP member's relative is hurt or killed, expect draconian measures. But it's just normal people and they are expendable here.

[ErikJ]

3. Expect Islamists to be run out of the country.

Chinese usually "dont take no shit" like that. If not by govt then the people.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

4. No. . .disagree. People here are as passive as the come

And the government will only do enough to keep the rubes believing they actually care.

All in all, nothing will change.

[maddezmom]

5. Locking, duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014792409