DHAKA: Four people were convicted Friday of plotting a knife attack that killed 31 people at a railway station in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming.

A court in the city said in an online statement the accused led a terrorist group that planned and executed the attack, which wounded 141 people on March 1.

Three were sentenced to death, the fourth to a life in prison, reports The CNN.

The names of the four suspects suggested they were Uyghur, a mainly Muslim ethnic group from Xinjiang, northwest China.

Authorities had blamed terrorists from the region for the attack.
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One of the accused stormed the railway station, along with at least four other assailants whom police shot dead at the scene. The attackers wore black and wielded long knives and machetes.

BDST: 1752 HRS, SEP 12, 2014