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By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - At least two and as many as four attackers wielding long knives wounded six people in an attack at a railway station in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on Tuesday, police and state media said, the latest in a series of such assaults that have raised jitters around the country. Police gave no reason for the attack, but China's nervousness about Islamic militancy has grown since a car burst into flames on the edge of Beijing's Tiananmen Square in October and 29 people were stabbed to death in March in the southwestern city of Kunming. The government blamed militants from the restive far-western region of Xinjiang for both those attacks. Resource-rich and strategically located Xinjiang, on the borders of central Asia, has for years been beset by violence blamed by the Chinese government on Islamist militants.More...