Released on: April 29, 2008, 1:01 am

Press Release Author: Holiday Tours and Travel

Industry: Internet & Online

Press Release Summary: A pre-dawn collision between two pessenger train in eastern
China

Press Release Body: 28-Apr-2008

China : Update : At least 43 killed , 247 hurt in passenger train collision in Zibo
city

28-Apr-2008 05:05:55 AM (GMT) BEIJING (AP) _ A pre-dawn collision Monday between two
passenger trains in
eastern China killed at least 43 people and injured 247,a state news agency reported.

Witnesses said a train traveling from Beijing to the coastal city of Qingdao
derailed and hit a second train at about 4:40 a.m.,
Xinhua News Agency said. The crash happened in the city of Zibo in Shandong province.

The second train had been traveling from Yantai to Xuzhou . News photos showed the
derailed train laying at the bottom of a ditch,
with rescuers removing passengers from a carriage that had fallen onto its side.

Survivors with white sheets wrapped around their shoulders stood or sat near the
wreckage. The second train did not fall into the ditch,
but a news photo showed one of its carriages resting perpendicular to the track.

The head of the Ministry of Railways, Liu Zhijun, was headed to the site to oversee
rescue efforts, the Web site of the Shandong
government said. In January, 18 people died when a train hurtling through the night
at more than 120 kilometers per hour (75 mph) slammed
into a group of about 100 workers carrying out track maintenance near the city of
Anqiu in Shandong province.

Xinhua said the latest accident had cut traffic on the Jinan-Qingdao railway, which
links the provincial capital of Jinan with Qingdao .



Editor\'s Note

Railway disruptions


Those planning to travel by train or subway in this region should check with the
railway immediately to reconfirm travel arrangements.
If your train has been canceled, request a reservation on the next available train,
even if it\'s on another line.

Traffic on roadways near the train station may be considerably more congested than
normal. Stations are likely to become very crowded,
lines will be long and tempers among other passengers may be short. Allow a good
measure of extra time to get to the station and check in.

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