Freight Train Crash Disrupts Traffic, with No Casualties

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Freight Train Crash Disrupts Traffic, with No Casualties

Two freight trains collided Saturday afternoon on the Beijing-Shanghai railway line, causing no casualties but disrupting railway traffic for about two hours, local railway authorities said.

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Two freight trains collided Saturday afternoon on the Beijing-Shanghai railway line, causing no casualties but disrupting railway traffic for about two hours, local railway authorities said.

The accident occurred on the Chuzhou section of the railway in Anhui Province, east China, when one freight train hit another that was reversing to pick up 10 disconnected wagons.

The crash caused three wagons from each train to derail.

Operations resumed two hours later after the railway departmentin Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province, east China cleared the wagons from the line.

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