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Rescuers work at the site of the trains
colliding accident, in east China's Shandong Province, on April 28, 2008.
Passenger train T195 en route from Beijing to Qingdao city in eastern
China derailed and hit train 5034 early on Monday, causing "heavy
casualties", witnesses and a government spokesman confirmed.(Xinhua
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ZHOUCUN, Shandong, April 29 (Xinhua) -- The
Qingdao-Jinan Railway reopened to traffic early on Tuesday, after more than 20
hours of interruption caused by a train collision that killed 70 people and
injured more than 400 on Monday.
At 2:16 am, a cargo train weighing 1,185 metric tons
rolled over the restored section of the railway in Zibo City of east China's
Shandong Province, followed by passenger train T196 from Qingdao to Beijing at
2:41 am.
Thousands of passengers were stranded at railway
stations in Jinan, Qingdao and other destinations following the pre-dawn
collision and derailments on Monday, but most were transferred to long-distance
buses.
"So far, the accident site has been cleaned up and
the stranded passengers evacuated," said Wang Jun, head of the State
Administration of Work Safety. "All the injured have been hospitalized and the
dead have been transferred to local funeral homes."
Wang is heading a State Council investigation team to
pinpoint the cause of the accident, the worst train crash in China in a decade.
Casualties were recorded on both trains, one of which
was en route from Beijing to Qingdao, a coastal Olympic co-host city in
Shandong. The other was traveling from Shandong's Yantai to Xuzhouin the eastern
Jiangsu Province.
The high-speed train from Beijing, coded T195,
derailed in the city of Zibo at about 4:40 a.m. on Monday and smashed into train
5034. The second train also veered off the tracks. At least 12 cars of the two
trains derailed.
A preliminary investigation suggested T195 was
running at 131 kilometers per hour at the time of the accident, while the speed
limit of that section was 80 kph.
The accident happened just three days before the May
Day holiday, when millions of Chinese holidaymakers will travel by train.
It caught the attention of top Chinese leaders Hu
Jintao and Wen Jiabao, who urged all-out rescue efforts on Monday.
President, premier urge all-out
efforts in train wreck
BEIJING, April 28 (Xinhua) -- President Hu Jintao and
Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday issued directives that all-out efforts be made in
rescuing and treating the injured from the early morning train collision in east
China.
The top leaders also requested relevant offices to
properly handle the aftermath, discover the cause of the accident and resume
rail operations at the earliest time possible. Full story
Damaged Chinese railway line repaired
following fatal train collision
JINAN, April 28 (Xinhua) -- Workers have finished
repairing the damaged section of the Jinan-Qingdao Railway following an early
morning fatal accident, officials said on Monday evening, and a train of about a
dozen carriages slowly rolled onto the section at 7:45 p.m.
The Ministry of Railways said it expected to restore
service at about 8 a.m. on Tuesday. Full story
Train collision kills at least 70,
injures hundreds
JINAN, April 28 (Xinhua) -- A high-speed passenger train
jumped the track in the eastern province of Shandong early on Monday, striking
another train and leaving 70 dead and 416 injured, railway authorities
confirmed.
President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have urged
all-out efforts in the train wreck. Preliminary investigations suggested the
accident was caused by human error. Authorities have ruled out the possibility
of a terror attack. Full story
East China train collision caused by
human error
ZHOUCUN, Shandong, April 28 (Xinhua) -- The train
collision in east China's Shandong Province that killed 66 people and injured
another 247 was caused by human error, according to preliminary investigation on
Monday.
Authorities have ruled out the possibility of terrorist
acts.Full story
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