Heavy casualties in China train collision -Xinhua
BEIJING, April 28 (Reuters) - Dozens were injured or killed in a collision of two passenger trains in eastern China on Monday, the official Xinhua news agency cited a medical worker at the scene as saying.
Witnesses and a government spokesman also said there were heavy casualties in the collision in the eastern province of Shandong, which caused 10 carriages to topple into a ditch, Xinhua reported.
"More than 80 people are injured, both seriously and not as seriously," a hospital official in Zhoucun district told Reuters. (Writing by Lindsay Beck; Editing by Nick Macfie)
Witnesses and a government spokesman also said there were heavy casualties in the collision in the eastern province of Shandong, which caused 10 carriages to topple into a ditch, Xinhua reported.
"More than 80 people are injured, both seriously and not as seriously," a hospital official in Zhoucun district told Reuters. (Writing by Lindsay Beck; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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