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Two Trains Collide in E.China, Casualties Unknown
Two passenger trains collided in east China's Shandong Province early on Monday. The number of casualties is not immediately known.
Passenger train T195, en route from Beijing to Qingdao, hit train 5034, from Yantai to Xuzhou, in the city of Zibo at 4:43 a.m., a spokesman with the Shandong provincial government confirmed.
The Ministry of Railways said train T195 derailed from the track before the collision.
Minister Liu Zhijun has arrived at the site to oversee the rescue work.
The accident has disrupted two-way traffic on the Jinan-Qingdao Railway, a pivotal route linking the provincial capital Jinan with the coastal city of Qingdao.
In January, a high-speed train from Beijing to Qingdao ran down a group of railway workers in Shandong Province, leaving 18 dead and nine others injured.
The workers were relocating the tracks when the train ran into the work site in Anqiu City of Shandong.
Passenger train T195, en route from Beijing to Qingdao, hit train 5034, from Yantai to Xuzhou, in the city of Zibo at 4:43 a.m., a spokesman with the Shandong provincial government confirmed.
The Ministry of Railways said train T195 derailed from the track before the collision.
Minister Liu Zhijun has arrived at the site to oversee the rescue work.
The accident has disrupted two-way traffic on the Jinan-Qingdao Railway, a pivotal route linking the provincial capital Jinan with the coastal city of Qingdao.
In January, a high-speed train from Beijing to Qingdao ran down a group of railway workers in Shandong Province, leaving 18 dead and nine others injured.
The workers were relocating the tracks when the train ran into the work site in Anqiu City of Shandong.
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