路透北京4月28日电(记者郭仕鹏/Nick Macfie)---中国官方媒体新华社报导称，中国山东境内胶济铁路当天凌晨发生的客车脱线相撞事故，已造成至少66人死亡，数百人受伤。据新华社报导，有400多人被送到医院，其中重伤70多人。这意味着死亡人数还可能进一步上升。
北京开往青岛四方的T195次客车运行至山东省境内胶济铁路周村至王村间脱线，与烟台至徐州的5034次客车相撞。
一位货运工人称，事故发生时两列火车可能都处于全速行驶状态。这是1997年以来中国最为严重的火车交通事故。
事故发生在铁路一个拐弯处，当时旅客大多在熟睡中。事故现场散落着一些破碎的暖瓶和沾有血迹的被褥。
伤者中有四名法国人，均因骨折送往医院，其中一人伤势较重。
车厢颠覆
从新浪网刊载的图片看，车厢倾覆过来，救援人员穿梭在裹着毯子的旅客中。
当地报纸《齐鲁晚报》称该铁路周一开始启用新的列车时刻表。
电视台称，这条铁路建于1897年，定于2008年北京奥运会之前告别客运历史，成为一条货运专线。
新华社称，铁道部部长刘志军亲临现场组织指挥，国家主席胡锦涛指派国务院副总理张德江赶赴现场。
过去几年中国在铁路建设上投资了约1000亿美元，以扩展铁路网络来满足客运和货运需求。
周一事故是1997年湖南荣家湾列车追尾冲突行车特大事故以来最严重的一次，荣家湾事故中有超过100人死亡。（完）
2008年4月28日星期一
Dozens dead in Chinese train crash
BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Two passenger trains collided in eastern China's Shandong province Monday morning, killing at least 70 and injuring 420, according to China's official news agency.
Two trains collided in east China's Shandong province on Monday.
One train on its way from Beijing to Qingdao, a city in eastern China, derailed and crashed into a train which was traveling from the Shandong city of Yantai to Xuzhou in the eastern Jiangsu Province, according to a report by the state-run Xinhua news agency.
The wreck happened in the city of Zibo in Shandong Province at 4:43 a.m., the report said.
"Most passengers were still asleep, but some were standing in the aisle waiting to get off at the Zibo Railway Station," a passenger named Zhang was quoted as saying by Xinhua.
"I suddenly felt the train, like a roller coaster, toppled 90 degrees to one side and all the way to the other side. When it finally went off the tracks, many people fell on me and hot water poured out of the thermos flasks."
Local villagers joined police officers and medical workers in the rescue effort, breaking train windows with farm tools to pull out stranded passengers, Xinhua said. Survivors also joined in, using blankets from sleeper cars as stretchers to lift the seriously injured from the stricken carriages.
A 38-year-old woman called Yu told Xinhua she had escaped through a crack in the floor of the carriage with her 13-year-old daughter.
"We were still sleeping when the accident occurred," she said. "I suddenly woke up when I felt the train stopped with a jolt. In a minute or two it started again, but soon toppled."
Xinhua quoted government officials saying they suspect human error in the mishap and have ruled out terrorism as a cause.
CCTV, China's state television station, said four French citizens were among the injured.
Two trains collided in east China's Shandong province on Monday.
One train on its way from Beijing to Qingdao, a city in eastern China, derailed and crashed into a train which was traveling from the Shandong city of Yantai to Xuzhou in the eastern Jiangsu Province, according to a report by the state-run Xinhua news agency.
The wreck happened in the city of Zibo in Shandong Province at 4:43 a.m., the report said.
"Most passengers were still asleep, but some were standing in the aisle waiting to get off at the Zibo Railway Station," a passenger named Zhang was quoted as saying by Xinhua.
"I suddenly felt the train, like a roller coaster, toppled 90 degrees to one side and all the way to the other side. When it finally went off the tracks, many people fell on me and hot water poured out of the thermos flasks."
Local villagers joined police officers and medical workers in the rescue effort, breaking train windows with farm tools to pull out stranded passengers, Xinhua said. Survivors also joined in, using blankets from sleeper cars as stretchers to lift the seriously injured from the stricken carriages.
A 38-year-old woman called Yu told Xinhua she had escaped through a crack in the floor of the carriage with her 13-year-old daughter.
"We were still sleeping when the accident occurred," she said. "I suddenly woke up when I felt the train stopped with a jolt. In a minute or two it started again, but soon toppled."
Xinhua quoted government officials saying they suspect human error in the mishap and have ruled out terrorism as a cause.
CCTV, China's state television station, said four French citizens were among the injured.
Passenger Trains Collide in Eastern China
A train lies on its side at an accident site in east China's Shandong province.
The New York Times
BEIJING — A predawn collision between two passenger trains in Eastern China on Monday has killed at least 66 people and injured 247, according to Xinhua, the state news agency, making it one of the deadliest rail accidents in recent years.
Rescuers work at the site where two trains collided in east China's Shandong province.
Two passenger trains collided in eastern China on Monday, Xinhua news agency reported, and a hospital official said injured passengers had been admitted.
The two trains, one heading from Beijing to Qingdao and the other traveling between Yantai and Xuzhou, collided at 4:40 a.m. in the town of Zibo, Shandong Province.
Witnesses said one train derailed at a bend and then struck the other, throwing at least ten cars into a ditch. Wire reports quoted a rail official saying that a new timetable introduced on Monday might have contributed to the crash.
Last September, a collision involving two trains took place on the same line, although there were no deaths. In January, 18 track workers were killed on the Beijing-Qingdao route after they were struck by a train traveling 75 m.p.h. in the dark.
Chinese newspapers frequently report railway fatalities, although most of them involve small numbers of deaths from collisions between trains and vehicles at track crossings.
China has one of the world’s most heavily used rail systems. In recent years, at least $100 billion has been spent on improvements and expanded service.
Reached by phone on Monday morning, hospital officials in Zibo said the injured began arriving around 5 a.m. with about 100 ambulances ferrying the injured to local hospitals.
A medical worker at the People Liberation Army’s No. 148 Hospital said more than 82 of the injured had been brought to the hospital and that family members had begun arriving by late morning.
An emergency room worker at Zibo Central Hospital said 40 patients were being treated there.
“Now the situation of patients is stable,” she said. “Some have lower back fractures, some have fractures to the chest and some have broken legs.”
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