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Six held for rail accident

BEIJING: Six persons, including a former local railway official, have been detained over a train collision on April 28 that killed 72 and injured 416 in China’s Shandong province, the Ministry of Railways said on Saturday. They include Guo Jiguang, former deputy director of the Jinan Railway Bureau, two dispatchers, a railway station supervisor and an assistant, as well as a train driver. T195, a high-speed train from Beijing to Qingdao, derailed in Zibo’s Zhoucun District at early April 28. Several coaches were thrown on a parallel track and was hit by a train coming from the opposite direction. The accident is the worst in China’s railways in a decade. — Xinhua

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