CHINA TRAIN MASSACRE: Knife attackers kill 28 commuters, injure 113

At least 34 people are dead and 130 injured after a group of knife-wielding men hacked their way through innocent people at one of China's busiest railway stations.

Distressing photos circulating online showed bodies, pools of blood and abandoned luggage scattered across the terminal floor at Kunming Railway Station in Yunnan province.

Authorities described the incident at about 9.20pm local time (1.20pm GMT) as an 'organised, premeditated, violent terrorist attack' in which at least 10 people stabbed commuters outside the station terminal before moving inside.

The death toll stands at 29 bystanders and five attackers who were shot dead by police.

Nothing is yet known of the motivation behind the attack, but the Chinese government has blamed militants from the remote far western region of Xinjiang, which is home to tensions between the government and Muslim separatists.

Probe: Police have cordoned off Kunming Railway Station in Yunnan province, one of the busiest in China in a city

of six million people, after a gang of knife-wielding 'terror' attackers stabbed dozens of people

Horror: Photos shared on the Chinese micro-blogging site Weibo showed bodies strewn across the floor

Distressing: Photos circulated widely on the internet showed a line-up of bodies on the station floor surrounded by medical equipment.

The majority of the photos are too graphic to publish

Emergency: Medics were still treating people in the station hours after the attack, said a Chinese news agency

Abandoned: Travel bags surrounded by blood lie strewn across then floor of the terminal, protected by police

Carnage: The attack was described as a 'violent terror attack' by state television

Body: One of the reported attackers who was shot dead by police in the standoff in south west China

Scenes of panic in aftermath of stabbings at Chinese train...

Chinese TV report on knife attack that left 28 dead

The state news agency Xinhua, quoting local government sources, said: 'Evidence at the crime scene showed that the Kunming Railway Station terrorist attack was carried out by Xinjiang separatist forces.'

The Xinjiang region borders Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and the Chinese government has blamed several attacks on militants there. -Dailymail