CHINA: China's domestic security chief visits Kunming attack injured

Record ID: 1963107

  • Title: CHINA: China's domestic security chief visits Kunming attack injured
  • Date: 2nd March 2014
  • Summary: KUNMING CITY, YUNNAN PROVINCE, CHINA (MARCH 2, 2014) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (CCTV - NO ACCESS CHINA) DOMESTIC SECURITY CHIEF MENG JIANZHU SPEAKING TO INJURED BOY INJURED BOY LYING ON BED MENG SPEAKING TO HOSPITAL STAFF MENG SPEAKING WITH INJURED WOMAN OFFICIALS WATCHING VARIOUS OF MENG SPEAKING WITH LOCAL OFFICIALS MENG WALKING IN FRONT OF KUNMING TRAIN STATION WITH LOCAL OFFICIALS VARIOUS OF MENG SPEAKING WITH LOCAL OFFICIALS SIGN READING (MANDARIN): "KUNMING STATION" EXTERIOR OF STATION PEOPLE LINING UP AT TICKET BOOTH EXTERIOR OF STATION PEOPLE WALKING IN AND OUT OF STATION PARAMILITARY FORCES MARCHING IN FRONT OF STATION PEOPLE WATCHING PARAMILITARY FORCES MARCHING VARIOUS OF PARAMILITARY FORCES MARCHING IN FRONT OF STATION BEIJING, CHINA (MARCH 2, 2014) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (CCTV - NO ACCESS CHINA) CHINESE CENTRAL TELEVISION NEWS LOGO (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) CHINESE CENTRAL TELEVISION NEWS READER , SAYING: "Let's check out a new piece of news. Kunming City government's news department just released a statement that evidence at the crime scene showed that the Kunming Railway Station violent terrorist attack was carried out by Xinjiang separatist forces." KUNMING CITY, YUNNAN PROVINCE, CHINA (MARCH 1, 2014) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (CCTV - NO ACCESS CHINA) MEETING FOR KUNMING CITY OFFICIALS IN PROGRESS SIGN READING (MANDARIN): "EMERGENCY" POLICE UNLOADING MATERIALS FROM EMERGENCY VEHICLE BACK OF EMERGENCY VEHICLE
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  • Location: China
  • Country: China
  • Topics: Crime,Conflict,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA3SAUOH3UE0EG19C8AVOCCMMA1
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3
  • Story Text: China's domestic Security Chief Meng Jianzhu on Sunday (March 2) visited injured in hospital and the site of an attack at a train station in the balmy southwestern city of Kunming, that left at least 33 people dead, including four of the assailants, who were shot dead.
    Paramilitary troops were also seen walking at the train station on Sunday.
    CCTV news anchor Zheng Li said a statement from the Kunming City government said the attack was carried out by militants from China's northwestern restive Xinjiang region.
    "Let's check out a new piece of news. Kunming City government's news department just released a statement that evidence at the crime scene showed that the Kunming Railway Station violent terrorist attack was carried out by Xinjiang separatist forces," Zheng said.
    The attack marks a major escalation in the simmering unrest which had centred on Xinjiang, a heavily Muslim region strategically located on the borders of Central Asia.
    It is the first time people from Xinjiang have been blamed for carrying out such a large-scale attack so far from their homeland, and follows an incident in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in October which shook the country's Communist leadership.
    CCTV also broadcast pictures showing Kunming officials meeting to discuss new security measures in the face of Saturday's attack.
    Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered that no effort be spared to track down those behind the attack.
    Microblog users took to the internet to describe details of what happened, though many of the posts were quickly deleted by government censors, especially those that described the attackers, two of whom were identified by some as women.
    The attack comes at a sensitive time as China gears up for the annual meeting of parliament, which opens in Beijing on Wednesday and is normally accompanied by a tightening of security across the country.
    Unrest in Xinjiang has killed more than 100 people in the past year, prompting authorities to toughen their stance.
    Last week the government charged a prominent Beijing-based Uighur economist, who has championed the rights of this people, with separatism
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