China detains six over fatal railway accident_English

Photo taken on April 28, 2008, shows the site of the trains colliding accident, in east China's Shandong Province. 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.

Photo taken on April 28, 2008, shows the site of the trains colliding accident, in east China's Shandong Province. 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 Photo)
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BEIJING, May 10 (Xinhua) -- Six persons including a former local railway official have been detained over a deadly train collision on April 28 that killed 72 and injured 416 in east China's Shandong Province, the Ministry of Railways said on Saturday.

They include Guo Jiguang, former deputy director of the Jinan Railway Bureau, two dispatchers, a railway station supervisor and an assistant, as well as a train driver.

T195, a high-speed train from Beijing to the coastal city of Qingdao, derailed in Zibo's Zhoucun District at early April 28. Several coaches were thrown on a parallel track and was hit by another train coming from the opposite direction.

The accident is the worst that occurred to China's railway system in a decade.

Investigators said the train T195 was traveling at a speed much higher than the speed limit on that section of the track, because the driver had not been informed of the speed limit.

Guo was dismissed and subject to investigation by the railways ministry on the next day of the accident.

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