Toddler alive in rubble of China train crash

By AP Published: 2011-07-24T12:17:00+04:00
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China's state news agency is reporting that a toddler has been rescued about 21 hours after a crash involving two high-speed trains killed at least 35 people in the country's east.

Xinhua News Agency says rescuers found an unconscious toddler early Sunday evening while clearing a one of the train carriages just as cleanup efforts were almost completed. It cited an unnamed firefighter.

The toddler has been taken to hospital.

A bullet train was traveling south from the Zhejiang provincial capital 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. Some of the carriages fell off a viaduct to the ground below. At least 35 people died and more than 200 were injured.