Another brutal stabbing incident took place at a railway station in Guangzhou of China on Tuesday, leaving at least six people injured by knife-wielding assailants.
It is unclear how many people were involved in the attack, however some local media reported four attackers, while others said there were two young men, one of whom managed to get away and one person was shot and then detained by police, reports BBC.
The incident comes less than a week after a coordinated bomb and knife attack that killed dozens at a railway station in Urumqi.
It also follows an attack at Kunming station in March that killed 29 people.
A store owner said the suspects had waited by his shop for about two hours before they launched their attack, the report said quoting Guangzhou Daily.
However, several eyewitnesses told Guangzhou Journal that the attack began shortly after a train from Kunming arrived at the station.
They said that among the disembarking passengers was a group of young men clad in white clothes and wearing white caps, holding large knives.
China News spoke to a woman from Inner Mongolia who was among those attacked.
Liu Yuying had just arrived at Guangzhou railway station and were taking pictures in the plaza outside when two men rushed towards them wielding knives. She injured her leg when she fell while trying to flee.
Two other people from her tour group, believed to be brother and sister, were slashed, she said.
Police rushed to the station at 11:30 on Tuesday, said a statement issued from the public security bureau's official microblog.
Police shot a male suspect armed with a knife after he failed to heed warnings, they said, adding the six injured people had been taken to hospital for further treatment.
Chinese authorities have blamed both these attacks on separatists from the Uighur minority group, which lives in Xinjiang.
This is the third attack on a public transport hub in China in three months.
Officials say Uighur extremists from the Xinjiang region carried out the attacks in Urumqi and Kunming.
