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51 Dead in China Travel Accidents

   VOA News 23 May 2010
   Chinese  rescuers work at the site where a passenger train derailed in
   Dongxiang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, 23 May 2010

Photo: AP

   Chinese  rescuers work at the site where a passenger train derailed in
   Dongxiang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, 23 May 2010

   Chinese  state  media  say  at  least  51  people  died  in two travel
   accidents Sunday.

   The  official  Xinhua  news agency says at least 32 people were killed
   when  a  truck  and  a  bus  collided on an expressway in northeastern
   Liaoning province. The accident occurred on a section of an expressway
   that was undergoing maintenance in the city of Fuxin.

   In  a  separate  incident,  Xinhua said at least 19 people were killed
   early Sunday when a passenger train was hit by a landslide.

   Officials  say  at  least 71 others were injured when the train, bound
   for  the  tourist  destination  of Guilin, derailed in eastern Jiangxi
   province.

   Firefighters  pulled  53  survivors  from mangled and overturned train
   carriages. More than 280 people were evacuated.

   Jiangxi  province has been hit by heavy rains in recent days, flooding
   low-lying towns.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP and AFP.

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