Two subway trains have collided in heavy snow in Beijing, sending 515 people to the hospital, including 102 with broken bones
BEIJING — Two subway trains collided in heavy snow in Beijing, sending 515 people to the hospital, including 102 with broken bones, authorities said Friday.
The accident occurred Thursday evening in Beijing’s mountainous west on an above-ground portion of the sprawling subway system’s Changping line.
Slippery tracks prompted automatic braking on the leading train. A train following from behind was on a descending section and went into a skid and was unable to brake in time, the city transport authority said in a statement Friday on its social media account.
Emergency medical personnel, police and transport authorities responded, and all passengers were evacuated by about 11 p.m., it said. Twenty-five passengers were under observation and 67 remained hospitalized Friday morning, the authority said.
Unusually heavy snow that began falling Wednesday has prompted the suspension of some train operations and school closures.
Alerts remain in place for icy roads, extreme cold and further snowfall. Temperatures were due to fall to minus 11 degrees Celsius (12 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight.
No deaths have been reported from the winter storms that have struck a wide swath of northern China. Beijing’s winters tend to be bitterly cold, but heavy snowfall is rare.
A fire has broken out at a girls’ school in central Kenya just two days after a boarding school inferno… Read More
The daughter of a French woman who was allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted repeatedly by her husband and dozens of… Read More
Gildardo Lopez Astudillo’s arrest comes weeks before the 10th anniversary of the students’ disappearance.Authorities in Mexico say they have arrested… Read More
Hamas releases heartbreaking video of slain Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, family calls it a 'wake-up call to the world' New York Post… Read More
With two months to go before the US presidential election, the candidates are outlining their vision for the world’s biggest… Read More
Spanish couples take their newly adopted Chinese children for a walk in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, March 7, 2007. Greg Baker/AP… Read More
This website uses cookies.