Sunday, July 24, 2011

China's,Bullet train collide in Wenzhou City

China's,Bullet train collide, An accident in Wenzhou City of east China's Zhejiang Province, when D301 train from Beijing to Fuzhou rear-Collided the D3115 train at 8:50 p.m. The first four coaches of D301 and the 15th and 16th coaches of D3115 went off the line.Xinhua reports-- Death toll has risen to 35 and 210 were injured when a high-speed train smashed into a stalled train late Saturday in east China's Zhejiang Province, according to the provincial emergency office.Casualty,as of 9:30 a.m. Sunday, 35 people have been confirmed dead, including two foreigners, the emergency office said in a statement.

The accident occurred at 8:27 p.m. Saturday on a bridge near Wenzhou City in Zhejiang Province when high-speed train D301 rear-ended D3115, which was allegedly hit by lightning and lost drive.Four carriages of D301 fell off the viaduct while two carriages of D3115 were derailed.Train D301 was heading from Beijing to the southeastern city of Fuzhou in Fujian Province while D3115 was running from Zhejiang's capital city of Hangzhou to Fuzhou.

Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao called for all-out efforts to rescue passengers and ordered to make rescue work a priority after the bullet train derailing accident late Saturday in east China's Zhejiang Province.

Zhou Yongkang, a Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, and Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang also instructed relevant departments to manage the rescue work well, according to a statement posted on the website of the Ministry of Railways.

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