Police stand guard to keep order at the entrance to the railway station in Guangzhou on May 6, after a knife attack injuring 6. [Photo by Zou Hong / China Daily]

Latest: Police have captured the second suspect, who ran away after attacking passengers at a railway station in southern China's Guangzhou city. Earlier in the day, the police shot and subdued one of the attackers in an incident that left six people injured.

BEIJING - Six people have been injured in a knife attack at a railway station in southern China's Guangzhou city, Guangzhou Daily reported Tuesday.

The attack happened at about 11:30 am in the square of Guangzhou Railway Station, according to police.

The police shot and subdued one of the attackers.

The injured have been sent to hospital.

It did not identify the attackers and it was not clear if the number of injured included the assailants.

The attack did not affect railway operations, according to Guangzhou Railway (Group) Corporation.

The incident is the latest attack at a crowded train station in the country within the past 70 days.

Three people were confirmed dead and 79 others were injured in a terrorist attack at a railway station in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on April 30.

On March 1, knife-wielding assailants killed 29 civilians and injured another 143 at a railway station in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming.

The cause of the Guangzhou incident is being investigated.