Update | Trepidation and heavy police presence in Kunming Uygur neighbourhood after weekend massacre
An Uygur community in Kunming has been placed under heavy police presence after a gory attack at the city’s main railway station by knife-wielding assailants left 29 civilians dead and more than 140 injured on Saturday night.
Residents of Dashuying, a low-rent “village-like” community in the eastern part of the city, said police officers and Swat teams had been stationed in the area since Saturday night’s horrifying attack on passengers at the railway station.
The area was rumoured to be a secondary location of “terrorists” attacks, but this was later denied by police.
On Monday, the atmosphere in Dashuying, about eight kilometres away from the Kunming train station, was tense, with the area gravely silent.
Special police forces with heavy weapons guarded every exit and have been carrying out strict identity checks since the attack on Saturday.
Policemen holding guns carried out inspections a few hours after the attack, [are] knocking on our door at 2am to ask for our IDs and they came again on Sunday and [Monday]
Ten policemen carrying long firearms entered an Uygur restaurant at around 2pm on Monday, announcing they would conduct identity checks on members of the ethnic group.
