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Subscribe to RSSAs Adrienne Mong and Bo Gu report on our Behind the Wall blog today, Chinese netizens have reacted with shock and anger to Saturday's deadly train crash in Wenzhou.
"Thunder makes two trains collide. A truck drives past a bridge, then the bridge collapses. You get kidney stones by drinking milk. None of us is exempted. Today's China is a train running in the thunderstorm, and we are not outsiders. We are all passengers," said one Chinese comment on Twitter.
Amid the outrage and sorrow, there was a glimmer of hope as a 2-year-old girl was pulled alive from the wreckage 21 hours after the crash.
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A two-and-a-half year old girl is carried on a stretcher from the scene of the crash involving two trains on July 24 in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. The accident occurred on the evening of July 23 when the D301 train, travelling from Beijing to Fuzhou, collided with the D3115 train, travelling from Hangzhou to Fuzhou, which had stalled on the line after a suspected lightning strike.
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A wrecked passenger carriage is lifted off the bridge on July 24.
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Two-year-old old Xiang Weiyi lies in a hospital bed after she was the last survivor rescued, some 21 hours after a high-speed train crash on July 23. There are fears her mother and father may be among the dead.
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An aerial view of rescuers working around the accident site on July 24.
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Women cry inside a morgue where people had gathered to search for their missing kin on July 25.
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First they said it was struck by lightning before coming up with various other excuses without first bothering to conduct any investigation. Then they gave a mere handful of casualties. This is typical of that country (my son is half-Chinese)- it wants to build a modern country whilst at the same time keeping its people in a state of permanent stupidity- about SARS, bird 'flu, fake milk, eggs, etc., corruption and incompetence, criminality and violence. SARS already showed the regime preferred to see its own people die rather than inconvenience itself with taking the measures necessary to prevent more deaths. It wasn't until laowei starting dying that it had to get off its collective arse to admit its own negligence. Until it has a real code of law and a free press to investigate and inform, China will continue to be a developing country after 4,000 years of claimed civilisation, forced to continue to steal Western technology that it cannot operate properly.
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