印度发生火车与公交相撞事故 33人死亡_时事要闻

印度发生火车与公交相撞事故 33人死亡

文章来源：未知文章作者：enread 发布时间：2011-07-07 06:39 字体： [大中小]　进入论坛

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At least 33 people are reported dead in India after a bus carrying a wedding party was struck by a train at a level crossing in Uttar Pradesh state.

印度北方邦一辆载有赴婚宴人员的公交车在一个十字路口被列车撞翻，至少33人死亡。

The express train collided with the bus at an unmanned level crossing in Patiyali, 250km (160 miles) south of the capital, Delhi.

The bus was returning after a wedding when the accident happened.

A local journalist said the train dragged the bus full of passengers up to 500 metres down the track.

The accident happened at about 0200 (2030 GMT Wednesday).

The bus, carrying up to 100 wedding guests, had come to a halt at the crossing after its axle（轮轴） broke, and it was then hit by the train, local administrator¹ Selva Kumar told the Associated Press.

People sitting on the roof of the bus were thrown off and seriously injured while those inside were crushed, reports the BBC's Ram² Dutt Tripathi in Lucknow. No passengers on the train were hurt.

The bride and the groom³ were travelling in a separate vehicle and were not among the victims.

More than 20 people have been admitted to a nearby hospital while efforts are continuing to free those trapped in the wreckage⁴.

One of the injured told a local journalist that he had been sitting on the roof of the bus when he saw the train coming towards them.

He said he tried to warn the driver, who did not appear to hear him.

"Talking to the survivors⁵, it seems the bus driver must have either not seen the signal or not heard the train when he decided⁶ to attempt the crossing," SK Seth, chief a local hospital where the injured have been admitted, told the AFP news agency.

TV pictures from the site of the accident showed policemen carrying bodies on stretchers from the wreckage of the bus.

Train accidents are common in India, which has one of the world's busiest rail networks.

In May last year more than 100 people were killed when a Mumbai-bound express train jumped off the tracks into the path of an oncoming goods train in West Bengal. The tracks had been apparently⁷ sabotaged⁸（妨害，破坏） by Maoist rebels.

And in July 2010, more than 60 people were killed when a speeding passenger express hit another train waiting at a station in West Bengal.

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1 administrator
n.经营管理者，行政官员
参考例句：
The role of administrator absorbed much of Ben's energy.行政职务耗掉本很多精力。 He has proved himself capable as administrator.他表现出管理才能。

2 ram
(random access memory)随机存取存储器
参考例句：
512k RAM is recommended and 640k RAM is preferred.推荐配置为512K内存，640K内存则更佳。

3 groom
vt.给（马、狗等）梳毛，照料，使...整洁
参考例句：
His father was a groom.他父亲曾是个马夫。 George was already being groomed for the top job.为承担这份高级工作，乔治已在接受专门的培训。

4 wreckage
n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏
参考例句：
They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。 New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。

5 survivors
幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
参考例句：
The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。 survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

6 decided
adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的
参考例句：
This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。 There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

7 apparently
adv.显然地；表面上，似乎
参考例句：
An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。 He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

8 sabotaged
阴谋破坏（某事物）( sabotage的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
The main pipeline supplying water was sabotaged by rebels. 供水主管道被叛乱分子蓄意破坏了。 They had no competition because competitors found their trucks burned and sabotaged. 他们之所以没有竞争对象，那是因为竞争对象老是发现自己的卡车遭火烧或被破坏。来自教父部分

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