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Premier Wen arrives in Wenzhou to mourn victims of train crash
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July 28, 2011, Thursday
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CHINESE Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in Wenzhou at 10am this morning to inspect the bullet train crash site and mourn the victims, Xinhua reported.
Premier Wen will also visit injured passengers at local hospitals and express his condolences to the victims' families, according to Xinhua.
Wen yesterday ordered a swift and transparent investigation into the bullet train crash that killed 39 people and left nearly 200 injured.
He pledged the government would take "resolute" safety steps in its aftermath.
"Great importance must be attached to finding out the facts and judging the responsibility in accordance with laws and regulations," a statement published after a State Council meeting said.
Authorities must launch a "swift, open and transparent investigation" and the results must be made public, the statement said.
Saturday's high-speed train crash in Wenzhou in east China's Zhejiang Province left 192 people injured. More than 10 are in a serious condition. The D301 train rear-ended the D3115, which stalled after losing power due to a lightning strike.
The Ministry of Railways has promised to pay the families of the deceased 500,000 yuan (US$77,626) each in compensation.
The State Council has set up an investigation panel, which is still working on the site, the ministry said.
The train that was rear-ended on Saturday night usually goes after the other express train, one of several "abnormal signs" before the accident, according to state television.
It said that weather was definitely not the single factor to blame for the crash.
One of the trains involved in the crash stopped at a station much longer than usual and the other, with no scheduled stop there, stayed for more than 10 minutes that night.
The D3115, the train that stalled, entered Yongjia Station at 7:48pm and waited for nearly 30 minutes before moving on, China Central Television said, citing a work log and an unnamed guard at the station. It usually stayed for just a few minutes.
The crash happened at 8:30pm.
The D301 usually passed by the station but that night it stayed for more than 10 minutes.
The station usually relies on computerized dispatching of services, but that night they were done manually, CCTV said.
The D301 should have been be in front of the D3115 after Yongjia Station.
That night, a short blackout period in downtown Wenzhou followed the lightning, a Wenzhou railway worker told CCTV. The blackout also hit a railway work station in charge of power supplies, it said. "Computers were powered off in the blackout," the report cited a worker there as saying.
However, the State Grid said yesterday its power supply around Wenzhou performed normally on Saturday despite the bad weather.
Power failure on a bullet train was blamed as the major reason for the crash. Earlier reports said the crash was due to a power failure after a lightning strike.
Cables and facilities for railways at three electricity substations around Wenzhou as well as the power supply to Wenzhou's two railway stations all ran smoothly and none was affected by Saturday's bad weather, China News Service quoted the State Grid as saying.
Premier Wen will also visit injured passengers at local hospitals and express his condolences to the victims' families, according to Xinhua.
Wen yesterday ordered a swift and transparent investigation into the bullet train crash that killed 39 people and left nearly 200 injured.
He pledged the government would take "resolute" safety steps in its aftermath.
"Great importance must be attached to finding out the facts and judging the responsibility in accordance with laws and regulations," a statement published after a State Council meeting said.
Authorities must launch a "swift, open and transparent investigation" and the results must be made public, the statement said.
Saturday's high-speed train crash in Wenzhou in east China's Zhejiang Province left 192 people injured. More than 10 are in a serious condition. The D301 train rear-ended the D3115, which stalled after losing power due to a lightning strike.
The Ministry of Railways has promised to pay the families of the deceased 500,000 yuan (US$77,626) each in compensation.
The State Council has set up an investigation panel, which is still working on the site, the ministry said.
The train that was rear-ended on Saturday night usually goes after the other express train, one of several "abnormal signs" before the accident, according to state television.
It said that weather was definitely not the single factor to blame for the crash.
One of the trains involved in the crash stopped at a station much longer than usual and the other, with no scheduled stop there, stayed for more than 10 minutes that night.
The D3115, the train that stalled, entered Yongjia Station at 7:48pm and waited for nearly 30 minutes before moving on, China Central Television said, citing a work log and an unnamed guard at the station. It usually stayed for just a few minutes.
The crash happened at 8:30pm.
The D301 usually passed by the station but that night it stayed for more than 10 minutes.
The station usually relies on computerized dispatching of services, but that night they were done manually, CCTV said.
The D301 should have been be in front of the D3115 after Yongjia Station.
That night, a short blackout period in downtown Wenzhou followed the lightning, a Wenzhou railway worker told CCTV. The blackout also hit a railway work station in charge of power supplies, it said. "Computers were powered off in the blackout," the report cited a worker there as saying.
However, the State Grid said yesterday its power supply around Wenzhou performed normally on Saturday despite the bad weather.
Power failure on a bullet train was blamed as the major reason for the crash. Earlier reports said the crash was due to a power failure after a lightning strike.
Cables and facilities for railways at three electricity substations around Wenzhou as well as the power supply to Wenzhou's two railway stations all ran smoothly and none was affected by Saturday's bad weather, China News Service quoted the State Grid as saying.
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