In an article that’s headlined Chinese police solve the Kunming masscre, it only took The Telegraph 7 paragraphs to finally name the group responsible, Muslims.
Two witnesses told The Telegraph they had seen female attackers wearing face veils and Mr Liu, the shop owner, said he was “quite positive” that the attacker he had seen belonged to Xinjiang’s largely Muslim Uighur ethnic group.
“He didn’t wear a mask. He appeared to be quite calm,” he said. “He just placed his machete against people’s throats and slit them, effortlessly.”
Three separate witnesses claimed attackers had spared the life of Han Guojun, a local restaurateur, because he was wearing a white cap which identified him as a member of China’s Muslim Hui people.
Chinese police ‘solve’ Kunming massacre
Chinese police capture four suspects of a terror attack in the south western city of Kunming as fresh accounts emerge of how bystanders tried to defend themselves against ‘calm’ attackers
By Tom Phillips, Kunming
12:57PM GMT 03 Mar 2014
Two days after attackers dressed in black slashed 29 people to death at Kunming’s railway station, Chinese police said they had caught the surviving suspects and solved the case.
Xinhua, the state news agency, reported that a terrorist gang of six men and two women from the Uighur ethnic minority had been responsible for the atrocity.
As the news broke, fresh details emerged of how those caught up in the attack desperately tried to defend themselves with rods, fire extinguishers and metal parasols.
At least 29 civilians died and more than 140 were injured on Saturday night when a group of at least 10 extremists stormed the bustling station in southwest China and set upon men, women and children with knives.
“Two men were killed right in front of me, one had his throat cut, the other [was stabbed] in the chest. There was blood everywhere,” recalled shop-keeper Liu Guilin, 28, who said he had armed himself and six or seven other men with metal parasols in a desperate and successful attempt to deter the attackers.
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