Foreign victims make headway on recovery

BEIJING - Two foreigners are in stable conditions after being seriously injured in the Wenzhou train crash, say doctors who treated them in intensive care units.

Giovanni Pan, a 23-year-old Italian citizen of Chinese origin, is undergoing treatment at the city's No 2 People's Hospital. He arrived there on Saturday with serious neck, spine and lung injuries. He had also suffered from a lack of oxygen.

Despite making a recovery that was rapid enough to let him be taken off the respirator on Sunday, Pan is still suffering from serious fractures and a spinal cord injury that require surgery, Zhou Jue, a medic at the intensive care unit, told China Daily in a telephone interview.