The Ministry of Emergency Management of China sent a working group to guide the handling of rear-end collisions of freight trains on the Tianjin Jizhou section of the Daqin Railway

  China News Service, Beijing, April 14 (Reporter Chen Su and Guo Chaokai) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Emergency Management of China on the 14th that the Ministry of Emergency Management sent a working group to guide the handling of the rear-end collision of freight trains on the Tianjin Jizhou section of the Daqin Railway.

  At about 13:00 that day, two heavy-duty coal trains had a rear-end collision on the railway bridge in the Tianjin Jizhou section of the Datong-Qindao Railway (from Datong to Qinhuangdao), causing some of the carriages to derail.

  After receiving the report, Huang Ming, Minister of China's Emergency Management Department, immediately assigned a working group to the scene to guide and dispose of it, requesting and urging relevant units to speed up the restoration of the major coal transportation channel. .

  After the accident, the local fire rescue team immediately dispatched 48 people and 9 vehicles to the scene to carry out rescue work with all their might.

So far, no reports of casualties have been received.

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