Revisiting a rail tragedy on the fast tracks
By Wang Xu and Xin Dingding | China Daily | Updated: 2008-05-08 07:13
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Workers prepare to lift the last remaining train carriage onto a truck at the site of the nation's worst train crash in more than a decade, on the outskirts the city of Zibo in Shandong province on April 29. The train in the crash that killed 72 people and wounded more than 400 had been traveling far above its speed limit. AFP |
A deafening sound jolted the small city of Zibo out of sleep at 4:42 am on April 28. Minutes later, people saw what had caused that sound as cars of the T195 Beijing-Qingdao and 5034 Yantai-Xuzhou trains lay scattered across the tracks in the Jaoiji railway division.
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