Story highlights "We saw two people carrying big cleavers hacking whoever is in the way"

Police say separatist group from northwest China to blame

At least 29 are killed, 130 wounded

Four suspects reported killed

Lu Haiyan said the slaughter began while she and a friend were standing in the ticket hall of a Chinese train station.

"Suddenly, many people started running around crazily," she said on Tencent Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter. "We saw two people carrying big cleavers hacking whoever is in the way. They almost got to my back. Then I lost contact with (my friend) and I saw blood splashing in front of me."

Twenty-nine people were killed and 130 were injured Saturday night when 10 men armed with long knives stormed the station in the southwest Chinese city of Kunming, the state news agency Xinhua reported.

Members of a separatist group from Xinjiang, in northwest China, are believed to have carried out the assault, authorities said. The report referred to them as "terrorists."

Police said they killed at least four attackers and shot and wounded a female suspect. Authorities were searching for other suspects.

The killing spree came out of nowhere.

Map shows location of attack

Photos: Photos: Deadly China railway attack Photos: Photos: Deadly China railway attack Deadly China railway attack – Luggage lies scattered inside the Kunming Railway Station in Kunming, the capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, on Saturday, March 1, after an attack left at least 29 dead and more than 100 injured. Hide Caption 1 of 7 Photos: Photos: Deadly China railway attack Deadly China railway attack – A group of unidentified armed men with knives stormed into the Kunming Railway Station, according to city police. Hide Caption 2 of 7 Photos: Photos: Deadly China railway attack Deadly China railway attack – Police stand guard outside the Kunming Railway Station Hide Caption 3 of 7 Photos: Photos: Deadly China railway attack Deadly China railway attack – Police gather near the scene of the attack. Hide Caption 4 of 7 Photos: Photos: Deadly China railway attack Deadly China railway attack – The inside of the railway station is left in disarray after the attack. Hide Caption 5 of 7 Photos: Photos: Deadly China railway attack Deadly China railway attack – A Chinese police investigator inspects the scene of the attack at the railway station on March 2, 2014. Hide Caption 6 of 7 Photos: Photos: Deadly China railway attack Deadly China railway attack – Armed paramilitary policemen guard a crossing in front of Kunming Railway Station in Kunming after a Saturday attack that left dozens dead. Hide Caption 7 of 7

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Yang Haifei, a resident of Yunnan, told Xinhua he was buying a ticket when a group of people, most of them in black, rushed into the station with knives.

"I saw a person come straight at me with a long knife and I ran away with everyone," he said, adding that people who were slower were severely injured. "They just fell on the ground."

He said he sustained injuries to his chest and back.

Lu Haiyan said she ran to the main road.

"I ran to a restaurant already with a full crowd," she said. "The restaurant owner shut the door for quite some time before reopening it. Both my hands and legs are shaking."

Xinhua quoted a 50-year-old woman whose older husband was among those killed.

"Why are the terrorists so cruel?" said Chen Guizhen, holding her husband's bloodied ID card.

In the aftermath, postings on Sina Weibo, another Twitter-like social medium, showed local police patrolling the station, with bodies in blood lying on the ground. Chinese state TV showed investigators putting a knife with a blade at least 2 feet long into an evidence bag.

Chinese President Xi Jinping urged law enforcement "to investigate and solve the case and punish the terrorists in accordance with the law," according to Xinhua.

Xinhua said the Kunming railway station is one of the largest in southwest China.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang asked local authorities to ensure safety at public places, Xinhua reported.

Two weeks ago, 11 "terrorists" died in the Xinjiang region, Xinhua reported.

Frequent outbreaks of violence have beset Xinjiang, a resource-rich area where the arrival of waves of Han Chinese people over the decades has fueled tensions with the Uyghurs, a Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim ethnic group.