As in other pre-meditated acts of violence, there are victims and perpetrators.

Yet out of these incidents also emerge modern-day heroes: common, everyday folks who rise to the occasion to help, often sacrificing their own lives in order to save others.

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From the cold statistics of death and injury, Sina's website has put names and faces to the heroism that surfaced amid the tragedy at Kunming's train station, where a group of "terrorists" hacked at least 28 people to death and wounded more than a hundred others on Saturday night.

The list below is not a complete one; there may be many more heroic deeds done, and they all deserve to be honored and remembered:

Mr. Ding, Kunming Train Station Plaza Security Guard

Mr. Ding, 30, was a security guard of Kunming train station plaza. Ding was surrounded and hacked to death by five mobsters after he hit one of them.

Yugui Chen of Hongsheng Guesthouse

Chen carried about fifty wounded persons to a bus. "The bus floor was full of blood. There was smell of blood in the air. Many people were crying. The bus was filled with the wounded. A 60-year-old woman covered in blood could not get in. She was carried to the next bus later," Chen said as he recounted the immediate rescue efforts.

Liyuan Zhang, Deputy Director of Local Police Station

Waving his anti-explosion fork and shouting, "Hey, come and hack me",  Liyuan Zhang ran to a bus stop where there were fewer people, hoping to lead the mobsters away from the larger crowd.  But the mobsters hacked people in the first ticket lobby first before turning around to hack Zhang.

Lin Xie, Team Leader of the Third Squadron of Police Station in Kunming Train Station

Xie pursued five of the mobsters who continued hacking people as they fled toward Beijing Road and Yongping Road. The mobsters were cornered at the intersection in front of Sanye restaurant, where they inflicted serious wounds on Xie.

Mr. Liu, Security Guard of Beef Noodle Restaurant

Mr. Liu tried to stop a mobster and got stabbed in the chest.

Fang Chen, Restaurant Owner

Fang saved 200 people by ushering them into her 80-square meter restaurant and then closed the door.

Huabin Pan, a Father

Pan, a father from Liupanshui, Guizhou, saved his 6-year-old daughter from being hacked by pulling her close to him. Pan was hacked below the prominentia laryngea and bled to death while his daughter was rescued by friends.