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Sat, Jul 23 2011 Vigil for Norway victims Sun, Jul 24 2011 China sacks 3 senior officials after train crash Tweet Share this Email Print Related News China train equipment shares plunge after train crash Sun, Jul 24 2011 Analysis & Opinion Mumbai – the city that never sleeps in peace? Drone strikes as police work, not an act of war? Related Topics World » China » Related Video Deadly train crash in China Sat, Jul 23 2011 1 of 7. Workers and rescuers look on as excavators dig through the wreckage after a high speed train crashed into a stalled train in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province July 24, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Aly Song By Royston Chan and Maxim Duncan WENZHOU, China | Sun Jul 24, 2011 10:34pm EDT WENZHOU, China (Reuters) - China sacked three senior railway officials Sunday after a collision between two high-speed trains killed at least 35 people and raised new questions about the safety of the fast-growing rail network. A bullet train Saturday night hit another express which lost power following a lightning strike, state media said, in the country's deadliest rail disaster since 2008. The power failure knocked out an electronic safety system designed to alert trains about stalled locomotives on the line. As rescue teams and firefighters with excavators searched for survivors, state television said two young boys had been pulled alive from the wreckage. There were 1,630 passengers on both trains, which collided on a bridge near the city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang province, some 860 miles south of Beijing. "The task for us now is to clear the debris and also to check for survivors in those areas that we have not gone to," said 35-year-old rescue worker Wang Jun. "Also, we are trying to get the railway line to be operational again." Authorities moved quickly to respond to public anger by sacking the head of the Shanghai railway bureau, his deputy and the bureau's Communist Party chief, the Railways Ministry said in a statement on its website (www.china-mor.gov.cn). The three will "also be subject to investigation," the statement added. "As leaders ... they should take ultimate responsibility for the main cause of the accident," Railways Ministry spokesman Wang Yongping told a packed news conference in Wenzhou. "There will be many people who think that this is a safety problem caused by high-speed rail itself," he added. "I should still say to people that China's high-speed rail technology is up to date and up to standard, and we still have faith in it." Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang, visiting the disaster scene, "pledged that the investigators will find out the cause of the accident and those responsible will be seriously punished according to the law," the official Xinhua news agency reported. Rescuers found eight more bodies on Sunday afternoon, bringing the death toll to 43, Xinhua said, though Railways Ministry spokesman Wang said the figure was actually 35. He did not explain the discrepancy. Wang also said no foreigners had died, denying an earlier report from the semi-official China News Service which said two foreigners were among the dead. Rail is the most popular method of long-distance transport in China and trains are usually crowded with as many as 1,000 passengers. The reliability of China's rail network was called into question recently when the flagship Beijing-Shanghai high-speed line suffered a series of power outages soon after opening to great fanfare a month ago. China's rail network has also been hit by a series of scandals. Three railway officials have been investigated for corruption this year, according to local media reports. In February, Liu Zhijun was sacked as railways minister for "serious disciplinary violations." He led the rail sector's investment drive over the past decade. Chinese Internet users took to popular microblogging site Weibo to vent their anger about the accident, with some calling for Railways Minister Sheng Guangzu to resign, posting his picture online with a large red cross through it. "The Railways Ministry should realize that passengers are not just little white mice," wrote Yang Chunxiao. "Do you think officials are really trying to help? It's all for show," added A Cige. "FLYING INTO THE AIR" One train was heading from Beijing to the coastal city of Fuzhou, and the other was running from Hangzhou to Fuzhou. Both trains were made by China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock Corp Ltd (CSR). The force of the collision sent "the head of the train flying into the air," said Cai Qi, a 30-year-old villager who saw the accident and rescued five children, four women and one man. "Some of them had their hands or legs broken. Some were crushed inside debris and we pushed and carried them out." "Suddenly, there was a loud bang," said 32-year-old survivor Yin Caohui. "After that, the train broke. It was all dark and we could not see anything." A 31-year-old survivor, who gave his last name as Yu, said the train stopped suddenly and the lights immediately went off but the passengers "didn't think it was so serious." "Only when we got down, we saw so many train carriages falling down," Yu said. In 2008, an express train traveling from Beijing to the eastern coastal city of Qingdao derailed and collided with another train, killing 72 and injuring 416 people. (Additional reporting by Aly Song in Wenzhou and Sally Huang and Sui-Lee Wee in Beijing; Writing by Sui-Lee Wee and Ben Blanchard) World China Related Quotes and News Company Price Related News Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. 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