Four suspects in deadly Kunming station attack charged with terror offences

Four suspects in the deadly knife attack at the Kunming railway station in March have now been charged with terror offences, state prosecutors said on Monday.

Prosecutors in Yunnan province indicted the four over the attack that left 29 civilians dead and another 143 wounded on March 1, just four days before the Communist Party’s annual parliamentary sessions.

Five attackers were shot by police at the scene, and four of them died while the other was captured alive. Another three suspects were allegedly captured in at their temporary camp in Honghe Hani before they could help carry out the attack, state media said.

The Kunming Municipal People’s Procuratorate recently filed the charges against the four surviving attackers to the Kunming Municipal Intermediate Court, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate said on its website on Monday.

Three suspects were charged with organising and leading a terrorist attack, while the other was charged as an accomplice.

The suspects could face death sentence according to Chinese criminal law.