Four tried in China for Kunming terrorist attack

Beijing, June 30 (IANS) Four people have been tried for their involvement in a terrorist attack at Kunming railway station in China March 1 and killing 29 people, it was officially announced Monday.

The suspects were involved in organising, leading or taking part in the terrorist attack as well as intentional homicide, a statement issued by the Kunming municipal people's procuratorate said.

A group of assailants armed with knives attacked civilians at the railway station in Kunming, the provincial capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, causing 29 deaths and injuring another 143.

Police shot dead four of the attackers at the scene and arrested four others.