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Landslide derails train in China
u 19 killed
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 24 - 05 - 2010

A passenger train hit by landslides derailed Sunday in eastern China, killing at least 19 people and injuring more than 70 others, state media reported.
The latest death toll jumped from initial reports of eight killed, as rescuers dug out more bodies from mangled and overturned train carriages, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The train, bound for the tourist destination of Guilin, derailed around 2 A.M. Sunday in a mountainous area near Fuzhou city in eastern Jiangxi province, China Central Television reported.
Heavy rains caused a landslide that buried the railroad tracks, and the train derailed when it crashed into the huge mounds of dirt and debris, CCTV said.
About 2,000 rescuers, including firefighters, police and soldiers, found 10 bodies and pulled out 53 people who were trapped inside the crushed carriages, Xinhua said. Rescuers removed another 280 people by 9 A.M. They also warned that landslides remain a threat.
Xinhua reporters at the scene described seeing the locomotive, along with eight of the 17 train carriages, derailed and overturned in the mountainous area.
Rescuers used heavy cutting equipment to make the way into the overturned train cars.
Footage from CCTV showed cranes and heavy machinery removing the twisted train carriages off the tracks.
Workers also moved 8,000 cubic meters (10,460 cubic yards) of mud and rocks to clear the tracks, which scheduled to reopen early Monday.
An investigation is under way, with Jiangxi Governor Wu Xinxiong arriving on the scene to oversee rescue operations. President Hu Jintao urged railway authorities to reopen the lines as soon as possible.


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