China Train Collision: 35 Dead, 190 Injured

At last 35 people have died after two high-speed trains crashed into each other in China’s eastern province of Zhejiang on Saturday causing two carriages to fall off a bridge, state news agency Xinhua reported.Another 89 people have been sent to hospital, it added.
The accident occurred after the first train was hit by lightning and lost power, and was then rear-ended by another bullet train.
The government has spent billions of dollars boosting the railway network of the world’s most populous country and has said it plans to spend $120 billion a year.State television’s main news channel showed one carriage on the ground under the bridge.