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First train passes site after deadly crash

Updated: 2011-07-25 07:49

By Wang Zhenghua and Xin Dingding (China Daily)

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First train passes site after deadly crash
Chen Xin, a victim of Saturday's train crash in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, receives medical treatment on Sunday at Kangning Hospital in Wenzhou. At least 35 people were killed and 192 injured in the crash. Gao Erqiang / China Daily

WENZHOU, Zhejiang - The first train passes the accident site of a deadly collision in East China's Zhejiang province on Monday morning.

The train, numbered DJ5603 running from Ningbo to Cangnan in Zhejiang, passes the accident site at 6:57 am on Monday, said a statement on the website of the Ministry of Railways.

The death toll from the high-speed train crash in East China's Zhejiang Province has risen to 38, local government said.

Three more bodies were recovered at the site Sunday, bringing the number of the dead to 38 as of 1 pm Monday, said sources with the city government of Wenzhou, where the crash occurred late Saturday.

The latest number is not the final death toll from the accident, said the sources. 

Girl, 2, found alive in wreck

Twenty-one hours after a high-speed train crashed into the back of another that had stopped after losing power near Wenzhou, rescue workers found a 2-year-old girl alive in the last carriage of the stalled train.

Xiang Weiyi, from Wenzhou, had suffered no apparent injuries after being trapped in the carriage, rescue workers said. She was not crying when they discovered her about 5:20 pm as they cleared the wreckage on a viaduct.

"When we found her, she could still move her hands," a firefighter said. She was taken to No 118 Hospital of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in Wenzhou, he said.

Weiyi's uncle said she had been traveling with her parents. He did not know if they had survived.

As of 10:30 pm Sunday, the number of confirmed dead stood at 35 people. A further 192 had been injured, said Ministry of Railways spokesman Wang Yongping.

The accident happened at 8:38 pm on Saturday on a bridge in East China's Zhejiang province when a high-speed train, D301, rear-ended a stalled bullet train, D3115.

President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao called for "all-out efforts" to rescue injured passengers. Vice-Premier Zhang Dejiang arrived on Sunday at the site to direct rescue efforts and help with the investigation into the accident.

Wang apologized to the injured and their families. He said the ministry would draw lessons from the crash to prevent similar accidents from happening.

A device on the D301 train similar to the "black box" on aircraft was found at 5 am Sunday and is expected to help experts analyze the cause, the ministry said in a news release. Railways Minister Sheng Guangzu promised that the cause of the accident would be made public as soon as possible.

Three railway officials were fired on Sunday: Long Jing, head of the Shanghai Railway Bureau; He Shengli, deputy bureau chief; and Li Jia, head of the bureau's committee of the Communist Party of China. The three will also be subject to investigation, the ministry said.

The ministry canceled 58 high-speed trains on Sunday and ordered that passengers be given full refunds.

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