Trains collide in China, casualties unknown
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BEIJING, April 28 (Reuters) - Two passenger trains collided in eastern China on Monday, Xinhua news agency reported. It was not immediately known if there were any casualties.
One train, en route from Beijing to eastern city of Qingdao, hit another in the city of Zibo, in Shandong province, in the early hours, a spokesman with the Shandong provincial government was quoted as saying.
The second train was travelling between Yantai, in Shandong, and Xuzhou in the neighbouring province of Jiangsu.
In January, a high-speed train ran through a group of maintenance workers in the dark in Shandong, killing 18 in China's worst railway accident in years. (Reporting by Nick Macfie; Editing by Ken Wills)
BEIJING, April 28 (Reuters) - Two passenger trains collided in eastern China on Monday, Xinhua news agency reported. It was not immediately known if there were any casualties.
One train, en route from Beijing to eastern city of Qingdao, hit another in the city of Zibo, in Shandong province, in the early hours, a spokesman with the Shandong provincial government was quoted as saying.
The second train was travelling between Yantai, in Shandong, and Xuzhou in the neighbouring province of Jiangsu.
In January, a high-speed train ran through a group of maintenance workers in the dark in Shandong, killing 18 in China's worst railway accident in years. (Reporting by Nick Macfie; Editing by Ken Wills)
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