China News Network Luzhou, March 31, Beijing-Guangzhou Railway train rollover scene: nearby villagers rush into the railway to break the window to save people
Reporter Lu Yi Xu Zhixiong
At 11:40 on the 30th, when the T179 train carrying 654 passengers and 37 railway workers was running to the down section of Matianxu to Qifengdu Station of Gaotingsi Town, Yongxing County, Hunan Province on the Beijing-Guangzhou line, it crashed A collapsed body on the road caused a fire behind the locomotive and an off-line rollover of 5 cars next to it, which resulted in the unfortunate death of a railway police officer, with 4 seriously injured and 123 slightly injured.
The accident occurred in a mountain village in Yonghua Village, Gaotingsi Town. The nearby villagers became the first rescue force.
The 63-year-old villager Wang Yuehua was helping at a villager's house on the side of the railway, only a few hundred meters away from the incident. "At that time, when I heard a bang on the railway, the whistling of the train stopped suddenly, and immediately followed Seeing the billowing smoke coming from the railway bridge. I don't think so, something must have happened. "
At the accident site, several excavators, rail cars, etc. accelerated repairs and rescues. Photo by Yang Huafeng
Wang Yuehua said, I don't know what force made him shout "Hurry up to save people!" He immediately took the rope and shovel and rushed out. "I don't know why I took the rope. Soon, people around came." Wang Yuehua introduced that the villagers came from all around when they heard the loud noise and saw the thick smoke. Some of them held it in their hands. Vise, some with a hammer, others with ropes and other tools. When the villagers rushed to the scene saw multiple cars overturned and there was an open fire, they quickly cut the protective iron net on the hillside beside the railway with iron pliers, rolled down the hillside and poured into the railway to start rescue.
The village director Wang Feng, who was the first to arrive at the scene with the villagers, introduced that some villagers climbed into the sidecar and smashed the windows with a hammer, and pulled the people in the carriage out by hand; some villagers responded on the railway. Passengers sent them up the hillside. "At that time, a section of the car was burning with fire, the smoke was soaring, and there was a rattling noise from time to time. Everyone didn't think much, only one thought in their hearts was to save people."
The accident caused the T179 train to catch fire, and the second to sixth cars were off-line and capsized. Photo by Yang Huafeng
"Thinking afterwards is still a little scared." Wang Yuehua said that after he climbed into the compartment and heard someone shouting in the compartment, there was smoke at the scene and he couldn't see the situation in the compartment, which made him very anxious, only scattered with the villagers' door Open different windows one by one.
Soon, rescue forces from the fire protection, medical care, public security, railway and other parties rushed to the scene to rescue. After Wang Feng and the villagers rescued two seriously injured passengers and took them on an ambulance, he helped guide the passengers coming out of the rollover vehicle to the nearby Yonghua School to rest. The local government and villagers brought instant noodles and hot water, medical staff cleaned up wounds for minor injuries, and the Emergency Response Headquarters established in Quzhou City arranged arrangements for the treatment of the wounded, evacuation and emotional comfort.
At about 5 pm on the 30th, when a reporter from Chinanews arrived at the scene, the T179 train fire was extinguished, and the wounded were taken to nearby hospitals for emergency treatment. Some passengers are still leaving the scene by bus and will be transferred to the high-speed rail. destination. The sidecars are S-shaped "sideways" in the lush green mountains. Multiple excavators are working together to move the sidecars to clear the aisle.
According to public information, the T179 train is an air-conditioned express train from Jinan to Guangzhou. It departs from Jinan at 17:19 and arrives at the terminal Guangzhou at 16:30 the next day. It passes through 15 stations and has a total length of 1998 kilometers and a running time of 23 Hours and 11 minutes. (Finish)