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View all search resultsChina puts 4 on trial for train station attack
Trials started Friday for four people accused of killing31 people in a knife attack earlier this year outside a railway station in thesouthern Chinese city of Kunming
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rials started Friday for four people accused of killing31 people in a knife attack earlier this year outside a railway station in thesouthern Chinese city of Kunming.
Kunming Intermediate People's Court said in a statement released Friday that Iskandar Ehet, Turgun Tohtunyaz and Hasayn Muhammad were standing trial on charges of organizing and leading a terror group and murder. The fourth person, Patigul Tohti, was being tried on charges of joining a terror group and murder.
The court said they were part of a terror group that plotted the March 1 attack, when five knife-wielding assailants hacked 31 people to death and injured another 141 people.
The attack shook the country amid escalating ethnic tensions between China's Muslim minority group of Uighurs and the majority Han people, which were once contained in the ethnic region of Xinjiang but began to spill to the rest of China late last year.
