Xi calls for 'decisive action' in Xinjiang

Two attackers dead after blast and stabbings at train station

The two people who carried out Wednesday's terrorist attack in a railway station in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, had been involved in religious extremism for a long time, police said on Thursday.

A police investigation showed that Sedierding Shawuti, 39, from Shaya county of southern Xinjiang's Aksu prefecture and another attacker were influenced by religious extremism. They stabbed people at the South Railway Station exit with knives and set off explosives about 7:10 pm after a train arrived at one of the platforms on Wednesday, the information office of the region said on Thursday evening.