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WENZHOU, July 27 -- Workers have moved the wreckage of the train carriages away from the site of the fatal high-speed train collision in eastern Zhejiang Province.

After nearly 24-hour clean-up efforts, all the wreckage, including that of the front carriage, had been moved by late Tuesday.

A Xinhua reporter saw that more than 10 lorries, carrying the last batch of wreckage, many in pieces, left the site near the city of Wenzhou at around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The reporter saw components of the train at the site, including the chassis, exteriors and wheels of the carriage.

The workers at the site declined to disclose where the lorries were heading. The reporter followed the vehicles and found the wreckage was taken to a bullet train garage located to the south of the railway station of Wenzhou South.

An investigation team dispatched by the State Council has ordered workers to transfer the train wreckage to the Wenzhou West Station for a further probe into the accident.

At least 39 people died and 192 others were injured in the accident that occurred late Saturday on a bridge when bullet train D301 rear-ended D3115, which allegedly lost power after a lightning strike.

On Wednesday morning, some families of the victims gathered at Wenzhou South Station, urging the government to explain the cause of the accident.

Among the crowd was a man surnamed Xiang, a family member of Xiang Weiyi, a two-year-eight-months-old girl rescued about 21 hours after the crash.

"My nephew (the girl's father) and his wife both died, supposedly due to blood loss, but if they had been rescued earlier, they would have had a chance of survival," Xiang told Xinhua.

Xiang said he wanted to know the cause of the accident most, and for the time being, he wouldn't consider the matter of compensation.

"I don't know the cause, so how can I talk about compensation?" he said.

The Ministry of Railways has promised to pay 500,000 yuan (about 77,500 U.S. dollars) in compensation for each victim of the high-speed train crash. Thus far, only one family has agreed to accept that amount, which it did Tuesday morning. (Xinhua)

WENZHOU, July 27 (Xinhua) -- Workers have moved the wreckage of the train carriages away from the site of the fatal high-speed train collision in eastern Zhejiang Province.

After nearly 24-hour clean-up efforts, all the wreckage, including that of the front carriage, had been moved by late Tuesday.

A Xinhua reporter saw that more than 10 lorries, carrying the last batch of wreckage, many in pieces, left the site near the city of Wenzhou at around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The reporter saw components of the train at the site, including the chassis, exteriors and wheels of the carriage.

The workers at the site declined to disclose where the lorries were heading. The reporter followed the vehicles and found the wreckage was taken to a bullet train garage located to the south of the railway station of Wenzhou South.

An investigation team dispatched by the State Council has ordered workers to transfer the train wreckage to the Wenzhou West Station for a further probe into the accident.

At least 39 people died and 192 others were injured in the accident that occurred late Saturday on a bridge when bullet train D301 rear-ended D3115, which allegedly lost power after a lightning strike.

On Wednesday morning, some families of the victims gathered at Wenzhou South Station, urging the government to explain the cause of the accident.

Among the crowd was a man surnamed Xiang, a family member of Xiang Weiyi, a two-year-eight-months-old girl rescued about 21 hours after the crash.

"My nephew (the girl's father) and his wife both died, supposedly due to blood loss, but if they had been rescued earlier, they would have had a chance of survival," Xiang told Xinhua.

Xiang said he wanted to know the cause of the accident most, and for the time being, he wouldn't consider the matter of compensation.

"I don't know the cause, so how can I talk about compensation?" he said.

The Ministry of Railways has promised to pay 500,000 yuan (about 77,500 U.S. dollars) in compensation for each victim of the high-speed train crash. Thus far, only one family has agreed to accept that amount, which it did Tuesday morning.

SEOUL, July 27 (Xinhua) -- A row over a cross-border tour program jointly managed by South Korea and the Democratic People' s Republic of Korea (DPRK) deepened Wednesday, with Seoul calling Pyongyang's rejection of a proposed meeting "regrettable".

Earlier this week, South Korea proposed a working-level meeting between officials from the two sides to discuss South Korean-owned assets the DPRK is threatening to dispose of. The DPRK, in response, insisted businessmen be brought to the talks.

"It's regrettable that North Korea (DPRK) practically rejected talks," Unification Ministry spokeswoman Lee Jong-joo told reporters. "It is our position that we cannot comply with measures taken unilaterally by the North."

Tours to Mount Kumgang, just north of the border, were suspended in 2008 after a shooting death of a South Korean tourist there.

Seoul has long refused to reopen the tours without a proper investigation into the shooting death and safety guarantees, while Pyongyang, claiming it has done enough, unilaterally seized South Korean properties at the resort.

Pyongyang's move is seen here as a response to what it views as South Korea's reluctance to reopen the suspended tours, once a rare source of hard cash for Pyongyang. Launched in 1998 amid growing rapprochement, the tours had brought nearly two million South Koreans to the scenic mountain.

MOSCOW, July 27 -- Three people were killed and nine others were injured in an apartment building fire in central Russia, local media reported Wednesday.

The fire broke out at a two-story apartment house overnight in the Volga River city of Astrakhan, sources from the regional center of the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations told Itar-Tass.

Even though the first firefighters arrived at the site four minutes after the fire alarm, the fire had already spread to three nearby residential buildings, damaging some 400 square meters of interior and roofs of the apartment houses, according to the sources.

Among the nine injured people, six were hospitalized, a source said.

A total of 64 people lived in the houses and the local authorities were working at the site to consider resettlement.

Specialists were looking into the cause of the mishap. (Xinhua)

BEIJING, July 27 -- A total of 89 children were rescued when police busted two major human trafficking rings in south China, the Ministry of Public Security said on Wednesday.

Police from 14 provinces and autonomous regions worked together to bust the rings, detaining a total of 369 suspects.

On July 15, police in south China's Guangdong Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region broke up a cross-border trafficking gang, saving eight children and detaining 39 suspects.

The gang members were largely Vietnamese, smuggling children from Vietnam into China. However, the channel they used to bring the children into the country has now been closed off, the ministry said.

In another trafficking case, more than 2,600 police officers were dispatched on July 20 from nearly every corner of China to bust a cross-regional trafficking ring that operated in areas ranging from southeast China's Fujian Province to the northern province of Hebei.

Eighty-one children were rescued and 330 suspects were detained during the bust, the ministry said.

While holding a four-month-old infant in her arms, Yang Lijuan, a policewoman from the city of Handan in Hebei, said "the baby was fed with low-quality milk powder as a result of the buyer's poor living conditions." The infant was abducted two months ago.

A number of policewomen were sent to take care of the 13 children rescued in Handan, who were later transferred to social welfare facilities, local police said.

Chen Shiqu, director of the anti-human trafficking office of the Ministry of Public Security, said "all rescued children should be placed under the temporary care of civil affairs departments before their parents can be located and verified through DNA tests."

Chen added that the children are not allowed to stay with buyers after they have been found by the police in order to discourage the growth of the buyers' market.

The ministry said further efforts are being made to rescue more abducted children.

Since April 2009, police nationwide have solved more than 39,000 human trafficking cases, busted 4,885 criminal gangs and saved 14,600 children and 24,800 women, according to statistics provided by the ministry. (Xinhua)

BANGKOK, July 27 -- An improvised explosive device ( IED) planted under train track in Ra-ngae district of southern Narathiwat province exploded early Wednesday morning at about 5:30 to 6:00 a.m., halting train service in the area.

Initially, there were no reports on dead or injured people.

Maj-Gen Akara Thiparot, Deputy Commander of the Internal Security Operations Command Region Four, blamed drugs smuggling groups for the incident as many illicit drugs traders had been raided and arrested by authority recently.

The railway authorities have temporarily halted the operation of train service for Yala-Sungai-kolok line until they could make sure about the safety.

Southernmost provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat were once independent sultanate of Pattani before being annexed by predominantly Buddhist state in 1909.

The region has been plagued with separatist insurgency, illicit drugs smuggling, illegal oil smuggling and human trafficking for decades.

Since the resurgence of ethic separatist insurgency in the Muslim-dominant region in 2004, over 10,000 incidents have taken place almost on a daily basis. (Xinhua)

SEOUL, July 27 -- South Korean President Lee Myung- bak instructed the foreign ministry Wednesday to notify Japan that the planned visit by four Japanese lawmakers to a South Korean island might put their safety at risk, an official here said.

"The president ordered the foreign ministry officially notify Japan of possible safety concerns," presidential spokesman Park Jeong-ha told reporters in a briefing, denying a report that Lee ordered officials to send back the Japanese lawmakers when they arrive at a local airport.

Four members of Japan's conservative Liberal Democratic Party are planning to visit the South Korean island of Ulleung, located some 90 kilometers away from a set of islets claimed by both countries.

The move is seen as the latest in a series of attempt by Japan to lay territorial claims to the rocky islets lying halfway between the two countries, known as Dokdo here and Takeshima in Japan.

Lawmakers and local civic groups are strongly opposing the move, with the chairman of South Korea's ruling Grand National Party claiming the visit would amount to a denial of the country's constitutional order.

Seoul's special affairs minister, Lee Jae-oh, has also repeatedly called for rejecting the Japanese lawmakers' attempt to enter South Korea, citing the country's immigration control law.

South Korea has a coast guard unit stationed on the disputed East Sea islets, a show of its effective control.​ (Xinhua)