Passenger Trains Collide in China [at least 43 dead, 247 injured] [photos]

Passenger Trains Collide in China [at least 43 dead, 247 injured] [photos]
NYTimes ^ | 4/28/2008

Posted on 04/27/2008 9:49:12 PM PDT by charles m

BEIJING (Reuters) — Dozens were injured or killed Monday in a collision of two passenger trains in eastern China, the official Xinhua News Agency cited a medical worker at the scene as saying.

Witnesses and a government spokesman also said there were heavy casualties in the crash in Shandong Province, which made 10 cars of the train topple into a ditch, Xinhua reported.

“More than 80 people are injured, both seriously and not as seriously,” a hospital official in Zhoucun district told Reuters.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; passengertrain; passengertrains; train; trains

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To: charles m

May God watch over them and help them in their time of need.

Carolyn

21 posted on 04/28/2008 11:00:34 AM PDT by CDHart ("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)

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To: trussell

Joining you in prayer! May the Lord have Mercy.

22 posted on 04/28/2008 12:13:55 PM PDT by tajgirvan (Please Pray for Steve Godbold, Christian Missionary Kidnapped in Africa 10/11/07 ******)

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