SHANGHAI
A Chinese court handed the death penalty to three people and a life sentence to another Friday for their alleged links to an attack on a train station that left 31 people dead in March in southern Yunnan province.
The Intermediate People's Court in Kunming city, the capital of Yunnan, sentenced Iskender Ehet, Turgun Tohtunyaz and Hasan Muhammad to death for organizing the knife attack and intentional homicide, according to China’s state news agency Xinhua.
The agency reported that the other suspect, Patigul Tohti, was sentenced to life imprisonment for involvement in the assault and intentional homicide.
Chinese authorities have called the March 1 incident, when a knife-wielding group of assailants left 31 people dead and 141 others wounded at Kunming’s railway station, a "terrorist attack."
Four of the attackers were shot dead by police, who detained the four suspects sentenced Friday by Kunming’s court.
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