Kunming railway station

Kunming

昆明
Kunming; 昆明
	A view of Kunming railway station
Location	Guandu District, Kunming, Yunnan; China
Coordinates	25°1′3″N 102°43′15″E / 25.01750°N 102.72083°E
Operated by	Kunming Railway Bureau,; Ministry of Railways of the PRC
Platforms	6
History
Opened	1966
Services

Kunming railway station (Chinese: 昆明站; pinyin: Kūnmíng Zhàn) is the main railway station serving the city of Kunming, Yunnan, China. It is located about four kilometres from the city centre.^[1] On March 1, 2014, a group of men and women carrying long knives rushed into Kunming Station, killed 33 people and injured 143.

Connections[]

Kunming railway station is located on the Shanghai–Kunming Railway, the Chengdu–Kunming Railway, the Neijiang–Kunming Railway and the Nanning–Kunming Railway.^{[citation needed]} It is also served by a station on Line 1 of the Kunming Metro.

Other railway stations in Kunming[]

Kunming also has the Kunming North railway station (昆明北站), on the meter-gauge Kunming–Hai Phong Railway. Presently (2012), it has only very limited service.^[2] Kunming also has a railway station called Kunming South railway station located in Chenggong District and is used for high-speed rail services.

2014 terrorist attack[]

On March 1, 2014, a group of terrorists carrying long knives rushed into Kunming Station, killing 31 people and injuring 143.^[3] Later, the police came and secured the scene of the attack. Four attackers were shot dead.^[4]

Notes and references[]

^ "Transportation of Kunming". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
^ 滇越铁路徒步第一程（昆明——宜良） Archived 30 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine (A walk along the Kunming-Vietnam Railway. Part 1: Kunming-Chenggong)
^ "Xinhua Insight: At least 29 dead, 130 injured in Kunming railway station violence". CNTV English. Archived from the original on 7 March 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
^ "27 Dead in Knife Attack at SW China Train Station". ABC. 1 March 2014. Archived from the original on 15 March 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2014.

External links[]

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[1] "Transportation of Kunming". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2011.

[2] 滇越铁路徒步第一程（昆明——宜良） Archived 30 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine (A walk along the Kunming-Vietnam Railway. Part 1: Kunming-Chenggong)

[cntv-3] "Xinhua Insight: At least 29 dead, 130 injured in Kunming railway station violence". CNTV English. Archived from the original on 7 March 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2014.

[abc-knife-wielding-4] "27 Dead in Knife Attack at SW China Train Station". ABC. 1 March 2014. Archived from the original on 15 March 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2014.

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