(CNN)A drone video appearing to show hundreds of blindfolded men being led from a train in China has raised new concerns over the ongoing crackdown on Muslim Uyghurs in the far western region of Xinjiang. President and party leader Xi Jinping says ‘no force’ can shake China as military parade begins. Previous attempts by CNN to visit the internment camps have been repeatedly blocked by local authorities. Rescue efforts were difficult as the crew accommodation car and the first 14 wagons overturned and lay on top of each other, and were heaped together with a large quantity of aluminium ore, the Gongyi government said. Ruser said that information in the video itself -- including data from the drone camera and visible landmarks that could be compared to open source satellite photos -- indicated that it had been recorded in Kuresi Station, near the city of Korla in central Xinjiang. This serious traffic disaster was caused by both the critical defects of design and the rough management of the bullet train company. At around 10:00 pm on Wednesday the 25-car train derailed from an escape siding and overturned, hitting a house in Gongyi, Henan province. "I feel so sad. ... -bound train hit the back of the Dhaka-bound train,” he said. Bikali said though he was transferred between camps by car, he too had a bag placed over his head and his hands shackled. It's the summary evidence, it's the bulk of evidence," State Department official David Stilwell said. At least 18 people were killed and 168 injured when a tourist train derailed in Yilan, northern Taiwan, on Sunday, in the worst accident of its kind on the island for 37 years. ... Yasanti River train crash, (India, 28 September 1954) 135: "They put cuffs on our hands and legs and masks over our heads. Xinjiang authorities and Chinese Foreign Ministry officials did not respond to requests for comment about the former detainees' allegations. The two trains derailedeach other, and four cars fell off the viaduct. Photograph: Str/AFP/Getty Images Tania Branigan in Beijing China's HSR accounts for two-thirds of the world's total high-speed railway networks. © 2021 Independent Online and affiliated companies. He was released after several months and now lives in Kazakhstan, a country on China's western border. Commuters faced delays when a train derailed in Leeds following a crash. Oct 22, 2019. Each car held 60 tonnes of aluminium ore, authorities said. Amanzhan Seiit, a Muslim ethnic Kazakh, said he was detained in China in 2018, but was never told what for. Xiapu County, China: 11 2 25 April 2019 An elevator fell at a construction site due to a snapped cable. Beijing - Rescuers have recovered the bodies of six people in central China after a cargo train carrying aluminium ore hurtled off the tracks and crushed a house, local authorities said on Friday. Authorities are still investigating the cause of the accident. "China needs to be challenged for this behavior," the official said. Some Uyghurs claim the camps are part of. While detained, he says the fear of not knowing what might happen was the worst. Hua called Pompeo's statement "utterly defamatory and groundless," adding that Beijing urged relevant US officials to face the facts, be objective and fair, and not adopt double standards on counter-terrorism, let alone to use this as an excuse to launch unwarranted attacks against China," referring to Beijing's claims that activities in Xinjiang are about stemming a terrorist threat in the region. Former detainees have described them as closer to internment camps, however, and allegations of abuse are rampant, including in firsthand accounts given to CNN describing. "Transporting inmates by judicial authorities (is related) to normal judicial activities. It's criminal," he said. He added that the men in the video appeared to be being transported from a detention center in Kashgar "to the much more expansive Korla facilities.". Terrifying CCTV of train crash in Spain. At least eight passengers were injured when an MTR train derailed in Hong Kong on September 17, 2019, leading to a service suspension on the East Rail Line. "Watching the video, I'm still scared because I know what the prisoners are thinking," Seiit said. The accident came on the first day of the four-day Tomb Sweeping Festival. An investigation is under way into what caused the "very low-speed" crash at the Neville Hill depot on Wednesday night. Speaking to reporters in July, Shohrat Zakir, Xinjiang's governor and the region's highest-ranking ethnic Uyghur official. MTR swiftly towed away mangled compartments and cleared debris on tracks after two empty trains sideswiped each other near the city’s Central station in the early hours … It travels at 250 mph from Pudong international airport to the outskirts of Shanghai. ", The official was able to verify the movement of some 500 prisoners earlier this year from Kashgar to Korla, information that broadly lined up with a separate analysis of the video by researcher. There are no publicly known instances of shooting deaths inside the camps. He declined to answer a question as to how many people remained in the camps. The derailment involving three… At least 80 accidents were reported between July 2018 and July 2019. Watching the drone video, he was overcome with emotion. "So many countries support China on human rights without understanding that it appears to be attempting to wipe out the entire Uyghur identity. The footage appears to show carriages coming off the rails before hitting the wall. ", "Xinjiang's crackdown on crimes has never been linked to ethnicities or religions," the statement added. 40 people were killed, at least 192 were injured, 12 of which were severe injuries. In the worst, at least 21 people were killed and 85 were wounded on July 11 when a passenger train … Central China: 1998/09: 27: 4: A train collided with a bus carrying guests of a wedding party. China's railways ministry has apologised for the high-speed train accident on 23 July near Wenzhou, Zhejiang province. China Europe ... (51 miles) east of the capital, Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Tuesday, November 12, 2019. He claims he was tortured regularly and describes the camps as hell. The train is owned by Chalco, China's largest state-owned aluminium producer. The predominantly Muslim Uyghurs are ethnically distinct from the country's majority ethnic group, the Han Chinese. Chinese officials have not yet responded to the video. Photo: Handout. Silver Star Train 92 still was stopped Saturday evening, Amtrak said in a tweet . 4 January 2010 – Finland – Helsinki Central railway station accident – A passenger train suffers a brake failure and crashes into a hotel at Helsinki Central station. … March 18 crash left driver injured and train carriages badly damaged ... That would now be delayed from the end of 2019 to an unspecified future date. The video -- which was posted online anonymously. The Wenzhou train collision occurred on 23 July 2011 when two high-speed trains travelling on the Yongtaiwen railway line collided on a viaduct in the suburbs of Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. By Matt Rivers, Max Foster and James Griffiths, CNN, Updated 1826 GMT (0226 HKT) October 7, 2019. More than 3,000 miles away, Omerbek Bikali, another Muslim Kazakh, knows how it feels to be scared in custody. Zakir said the camps had taught Uyghurs to practice their religion "normally" but added no single religion or minority group had been targeted. After several weeks in one camp, he said he was moved to another in a fashion exactly the same as shown in the video. A train still in testing has broken a Chinese speed record, hitting around 239 MPH. Search and rescue operations concluded early Friday morning after the bodies of four crew members and two villagers were found. Only four years ago, the first “bullet train” line in mainland China opened to great fanfare. TOPSHOT - Men work at the accident site next to a passenger train standing on the rails in Nyberg, Denmark, after the Great Belt Bridge was closed following a railway accident on January 2, 2019. And around the world, passenger trains, and particularly high speed rail, is an integral part of daily travel. A US official also told reporters on September 24 that Washington believes the video to be authentic. Lots of police were there with guns.". The South China Morning Post quoted Hong Kong Federation of … CNN cannot independently verify the authenticity of this video or the date it was shot. "I think the reason they want to torture us is, firstly, to make us physically weak so that you cannot resist," he said. That used to be me. A Central-bound train ran into a Tsuen Wan-bound train at a crossing between Central and Admiralty at 3am on Monday. the 25-car train carrying aluminum ore hurtled off the tracks Train Crashes in Eastern Taiwan, Killing 36, Injuring Dozens April 2, 2021 - by admin TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A vehicle rolled down a hill and smashed into a passing train, partially derailing it outside a rail tunnel in Taiwan and killing at least 36 people and injuring dozens. A western intelligence official told CNN they believed the video was authentic. The YouTube account which uploaded the video described it as demonstrating the "long-term suppression of human rights and fundamental freedoms by the Chinese government in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. "They don't know where they're being taken or if they'll be shot dead. "We were made to sit just like that," he told CNN. Chinese Foreign Ministry officials did not respond to repeated requests for comment on the video. As of this writing, there have been five major train crashes worldwide in 2019. It's terrifying.". The Uyghurs form the majority in Xinjiang, where they account for just under half of the total population. I cannot forget that. 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It is unclear whether the men are being held for criminal offenses or for other reasons. Xinhua. A drone video appearing to show hundreds of blindfolded men being led from a train in China has raised new concerns over the ongoing crackdown on … A driver was hurt in the … For two former detainees in Xinjiang, the video was strikingly familiar. All rights reserved, Please visit the official Government information portal for Coronavirus by clicking HERE. Taiwan’s last major rail crash was in October 2018 when an express train derailed while rounding a tight corner on the northeast coast, killing at least 18 people and injuring nearly 200. 12 February 2010 – United States – At 10.13, a train derails in the pocket track just north of Farragut North Washington Metro station when the front car leaves the tracks. "If there still skeptics, whether they are journalists, officials or religious figures, we welcome them to visit anywhere in Xinjiang or go to any vocational training center of their choice -- anytime," he said. The HSR network encompasses newly built rail lines with a design speed of 200–350 km/h (120–220 mph). High-speed rail (HSR) in China is the world's longest high speed railway network and most extensively used -- with a total length of 37,900 km by the end of 2020. Pan’s train hit D3115 at almost 100 kilometers an hour, impaling the driver on his brake, derailing both engines, and sending four train cars plummeting into fields some 30 meters below. He lives in the Netherlands now, after being detained in a Chinese camp for months in 2017. Hengshui, China: 11 4 29 July 2011 A mine-shaft elevator fell at the Bazhanov coal mine. The train … Like tall buildings and modern airports, a high-speed rail line is considered to be a sign that a nation has joined the industrialized world, and Chinese citizens were justly proud of their new high-speed rail lines, which have mushroomed since then.. It might indeed be time for a train upgrade – the world’s fastest one, also in China, was built in 2002. In a statement to CNN on October 4, authorities in Xinjiang said that "cracking down on crimes in accordance with law is the common practice of all countries. China bullet train crash 'caused by design flaws' - BBC News Officials r… Hong Kong’s trusty subway operator MTR Corporation was jolted out of any complacency it might have been suffering from after a train collision on Monday, the first such accident in its 40 years of service. 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