Train collides with stalled bus
Source: Xinhua |
March 25, 2011, Friday
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AT least three people died and 85 others were injured after a train ran into a bus stalled on the tracks yesterday morning in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
The bus lost control on a turn just after 9am and veered off the road in the regional capital of Urumqi City. It slid for more than 20 meters on snow-covered land, coming to a stop on the railroad tracks after crashing through a fence and knocking down an electric pole.
Kurwanaim Mushakim, whose feet were injured in the crash, had barely climbed out when she saw a train coming toward the packed vehicle.
"I heard many children crying on the bus," she said. The train hit the bus, knocking it off the tracks.
Minutes before the collision, many people were waving at the train, trying to get it to stop, but it was too late, said Ma Shuhua, who runs a restaurant nearby. "Some adults on the bus helped children jump out of the windows seconds before the collision," she said.
Witnesses said one barbecue vendor, who rushed to pull students out of the bus, was injured in the impact.
The three who died were two women and a man. Among the injured were at least 41 children under 16. The youngest was five years old.
Many local residents immediately rushed to the scene, helping children out of the bus and taking the injured to hospital in their cars.
The accident occurred near two primary schools and a densely populated commercial area in west Urumqi.
Munila, 11, a second grader at one of the nearby schools, was recovering in hospital last night. "All I can remember is someone held me up and passed me to another man down the window." She suffered bruises and scratches.
People queued up at local hospitals to donate blood for the injured.
No one on the train was hurt.
The bus lost control on a turn just after 9am and veered off the road in the regional capital of Urumqi City. It slid for more than 20 meters on snow-covered land, coming to a stop on the railroad tracks after crashing through a fence and knocking down an electric pole.
Kurwanaim Mushakim, whose feet were injured in the crash, had barely climbed out when she saw a train coming toward the packed vehicle.
"I heard many children crying on the bus," she said. The train hit the bus, knocking it off the tracks.
Minutes before the collision, many people were waving at the train, trying to get it to stop, but it was too late, said Ma Shuhua, who runs a restaurant nearby. "Some adults on the bus helped children jump out of the windows seconds before the collision," she said.
Witnesses said one barbecue vendor, who rushed to pull students out of the bus, was injured in the impact.
The three who died were two women and a man. Among the injured were at least 41 children under 16. The youngest was five years old.
Many local residents immediately rushed to the scene, helping children out of the bus and taking the injured to hospital in their cars.
The accident occurred near two primary schools and a densely populated commercial area in west Urumqi.
Munila, 11, a second grader at one of the nearby schools, was recovering in hospital last night. "All I can remember is someone held me up and passed me to another man down the window." She suffered bruises and scratches.
People queued up at local hospitals to donate blood for the injured.
No one on the train was hurt.
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