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China train collision kills at least three, injures 60 (1st Lead)

Jun 29, 2009, 7:19 GMT

Beijing - At least three people died and 60 others were injured when two passenger trains collided in central China's Hunan province early Monday. The collision derailed seven carriages and two locomotives at the railway station in Hunan's Chenzhou city, the State Administration of Work Safety reported. A passenger train from the provincial capital, Changsha, to the southern city of Shenzhen hit another train travelling in the opposite direction from Shenzhen to the city of Tongren, the administration said. The China News Service and other state media showed photographs of heavy cranes lifting the derailed trains, including several carriages and one locomotive which had overturned. Carriages from one of the trains destroyed two houses near the station, the agency reported without saying if the buildings were occupied. Liu Zhijun, China's minister of railways, travelled to Chenzhou, which is 300 kilometres from Changsha, to oversee rescue work and an investigation into the cause of the accident. A fleet of more than 50 buses was organized to take stranded passengers to other stations, reports said.

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China train collision kills at least three, injures 60 (1st Lead)

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