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Chinese media and public reacted with anger today to a fatal high-speed train crash<\/strong>, with even official newspapers saying safety controls on the rapidly-expanding network may have been too lax.<\/p>\n

Popular micro-blogging sites buzzed with criticism of the official response to the disaster, which killed at least 36 people and wounded nearly 200 more according to the latest government figures.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Global Times daily said the collision, which initial reports said was caused by a lightning strike cutting power to one train which was then hit by the other, had “caused doubt toward the nation’s railway construction plans”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The deadly crash on Saturday should become a bloody lesson for the entire railway industry in China. It should become a starting point for safer railway standards,” it said.<\/p>\n

Posters on the Twitter-like micro-blogging site Weibo expressed anger and suspicion, accusing authorities of “burying” evidence that could have helped determine the cause of the collision.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emergency workers at the crash site were seen using heavy machinery to bury the wreckage<\/strong>, and Chinese authorities have been quoted as saying this was to protect the country’s technological secrets.<\/p>\n

The government on Sunday moved to ease public concern, sacking three senior officials at the Shanghai railway bureau and launching an “urgent overhaul” of national rail safety.<\/p>\n

China’s high-speed rail network only opened to passengers in 2007, but has grown at breakneck speed thanks to huge state funding and is already the largest in the world.<\/p>\n

But some experts say the speed of growth has exposed the system to problems, and in recent weeks, delays and power outages have plagued a flagship new high-speed link between Beijing and Shanghai.<\/p>\n

Many newspapers focused on the story of a two-year-old girl pulled alive from the wreckage 21 hours after the accident.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pictures of the girl, whose parents were believed to be among those killed and who is now receiving treatment in a local hospital, appeared on many front pages.<\/p>\n

Source AFP<\/em>
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