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At least four passengers died after a train derailed in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region early Wednesday.
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Four passengers died and 34 were injured after a train derailed in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region early Wednesday due to a rain-triggered landslide.
Train 1473, from Xiangfan in central Hubei Province to Zhanjiang, in Guangdong Province, derailed at 4:22 a.m. in a narrow valley in Liuzhou City of Guangxi. The locomotive and its first four sleeper cars derailed, said the Nanning Railway Bureau.
Three of the five seriously injured were described as stable after surgery, while the other two had also were still critical after surgery, said Xiang Jun, secretary general of the Liuzhou City government.
Most of the injured had been transferred to four hospitals in Liuzhou with better facilities. About 100 buses were arranged to transport the stranded passengers - approximately 1,400 - to nearby railway stations or Liuzhou to continue their travel plans, he said.
"I heard an ear-piercing sound of the brake at around 4 a.m. which lasted for one minute. Then I was thrown out and lost consciousness," said Chen Dian who was on the train with three members of his family.
Chen said he found himself lying on the trackbed, aching and soaked with the kerosene. "It was dark and raining. I saw the first carriage had fallen into pieces. I heard people screaming and the noise of braking glass," Chen said.
Chen called for his wife, son and daughter and pulled them from the carriage. He went to help others after he found his family.
Chen was treated at hospital.
A steward named Wang Biming in the fourth carriage said he lost consciousness when the accident happened. His waist was bleeding when he was rescued by his colleagues who broke a window and pulled him out.
Wang said many passengers remained in the damaged carriage so he went to help them. He took off the door of the carriage and covered it with blankets as an escape ramp.
Wang was taken to hospital for treatment.
The train derailed after it hit rocks on the tracks swept there in a landslide triggered by continuous heavy rains, Xiang said.
