BEIJING, July 31 (Xinhuanet) -- Two trains collided head-to-tail at around 8 p.m. Sunday in northeastern China, leaving five carriages off the track and six passengers dead, according to the Ministry of Railways.

Train crash spot

    At 7:52 p.m, the K127 passenger train from northwestern Xi'an city to northeastern Changchun city collided into the tail of a cargo train from Changchun to northeastern coastal city Dalian. Thirty passengers were injured and rushed to hospital, the ministry said.

    An earlier report from the northeastern province of Liaoning, where the accident reportedly occurred, said at least one passenger was killed and attributed the derailment to a sudden power failure.  

   However, the Liaoning report didn't mention any train collision, and said the number of the injured remained unclear.

    Ministry sources said a vice railways minister had rushed to the scene after the accident to help organize the rescue work and ensure the traffic on the Changchun-Dalian section can be restoredas early as possible.

    Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun had ordered local railways departments to probe into the accident thoroughly, the sources added. Enditem

Traffic partially resumes after train derailment

    SHENYANG, Aug. 1 (Xinhuanet) -- Southward trains from Changchun to Dalian in northeast China resumed early Monday after a train derailment that killed six, injured 30 and laid over thousands of passengers Sunday evening.

    Thanks to overnight emergency repairs, railway traffic from Changchun to Dalian resumed at 5:05 a.m., said sources with Shenyang Railway Bureau.

    Yet repair work is continuing to restore traffic the other way round, they said.

    The K127 passenger train from the northwestern city of Xi'an to Dalian in the northeast hit a cargo train at 7:52 p.m. Sunday near Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province. Five cars of the passenger train were derailed.

    The Changchun-Dalian railway is the southern part of the landmark electric railway between Harbin and Dalian, China's first electric railway in northeast China operational from 2001. Enditem