Toddler found alive in China train tragedy

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BEIJING: A two-year-old toddler was rescued about 21 hours after a crash involving two high-speed trains in eastern China killed 43 people and injured more than 190 others, state media reported.

Xinhua News Agency reported the unconscious child was found early yesterday evening while rescuers were clearing one of the train carriages.

The China Daily newspaper said today that the child, who suffered no apparent injuries after being trapped in the last carriage of the train, which had stalled and was hit from behind by the second train.

The newspaper quoted the girl’s uncle as saying she had been travelling with her parents and that he did not know if they had survived.

A bullet train was traveling south from the Zhejiang provincial capital of Hangzhou on Saturday evening when it lost power in a lightning strike and stalled, before being hit from behind by the second train in Wenzhou city.

It was the first derailment on China’s high-speed rail network since the country launched bullet trains with a top speed of 250km per hour in 2007, the China Daily reported. – Agencies