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70 Killed in China Train Crash

Posted Apr 28, 08 6:12 AM CDT in World    Most Covered

(Newser) – At least 70 people were killed early today when a high-speed passenger train traveling from Beijing jumped the tracks and slammed into another train, AFP reports. Some 250 injured were pulled from the mangled wreckage in the city of Zibo in Shandong province. Officials discounted terrorism and blamed human error for the crash, the worst in China in a decade, but did not elaborate. Two railroad officials were fired shortly after the accident.

Sources AFP, Reuters

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Rescuers carry a woman from the site of a train collision in Zibo in east China's Shandong Province.   (AP Photo)
A woman is carried from the site of a train collision in Zibo.   (AP Photo)
Rescuers work at the site where two passenger trains collided in Zibo in east China on Monday, April 28, 2008. A high-speed train jumped the tracks and slammed into another early Monday.   (AP Photo)
Rescuers work at the site where two passenger trains collided in Zibo in east China's Shandong province. A high-speed passenger train jumped the tracks and slammed into another train.   (AP Photo)
Rescuers scramble over train wreckage to remove a victim from a carriage after two passenger trains collided in Zibo, in east China's Shandong Province.   (AP Photo)
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