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China Says Excessive Speed Caused Deadly Train Wreck |
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Tuesday, 29 April 2008
Chinese officials say an investigation into Monday's deadly train collision in eastern China has found it was caused by excessive speed.
The official Xinhua news agency said Tuesday that an investigation panel found a train traveling from Beijing was going 131 kilometers-per-hour in an 80 kilometer-an-hour zone, when it derailed and hit a second train traveling from the city of Yantai in Shandong.
At least 70 people were killed and more than 400 injured in the crash - the country's worst railway accident in more than a decade.
Xinhua news agency says two high-ranking officials from Shandong province were fired Monday.
The agency says about 70 people are listed in critical condition, suggesting the death toll could rise.
Xinhua says no foreign citizens were killed, but that four French nationals were hospitalized with broken bones.
The trains collided before dawn near the city of Zibo, in Shandong province, when a high-speed train from Beijing derailed and hit a second train traveling from the city of Yantai in Shandong.
Both trains were reported to be traveling at full speed.
President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have urged an all-out response to the wreck.
The accident was the worst of its kind in China since 1997, when more than 100 people were killed in a train wreck in the central province of Hunan.
By VOA News
29 April 2008 |
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
China
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