Miracle baby in China who survives the worst train crash in China

A Miracle has happened in China.

A toddler was found alive in the rubbles of China worst train crash in recent times.

The toddler was rescued about 21 hours after the crash involving two high-speed trains in eastern China that killed at least 35 people including 2 foreign nationals and injured more than 200 others.



Xinhua News Agency said the unconscious child was found early Sunday evening, 24th July 2011 while rescuers were clearing one of the train cars just as the cleanup efforts were almost completed.

China Central Television first reported that the toddler was a boy, but later said a 4-year-old girl.

However, it is not immediately known wether the parents of the toddler were among the passengers of the ill-fated train.



The crash happened on Satuday evening, 23rd July 2011 when a bullet train traveling south from the Zhejiang provincial capital of Hangzhou to Wenzhou city, suddenly lost power after being struck by lightning.

The train then stopped in the track and shortly after was hit from behind by another bullet train.

The first four cars of the moving train fell about 65 to 100 feet (20 to 30 meters) off the viaduct onto the ground below.

One carriage ended up in a vertical position, leaning against the viaduct.

State broadcaster CCTV said there were more than 900 passengers on the train that stalled, and more than 500 passengers on the train that hit it.

As a result of this crash, 3 high-ranking railway officials were fired and would be subject to investigation and prosecution.

They were Long Jing, head of the Shanghai Railway Bureau; Li Jia, head of the Shanghai railway bureau's committee of the Communist Party of China; and deputy chief of the bureau, He Shengli.

It was the first derailment on China's high-speed rail network since the country launched bullet trains with a top speed of 155 miles (250 kilometers) per hour in 2007.

It was also China's worst train accident since April 2008, when a train traveling from Beijing to the eastern coastal city of Qingdao derailed and crashed into another train, leaving 72 dead and another 416 injured.

This latest incident unravelled yet another mistakes, flaws and weaknesses in China's huge transportation system. Why no signals or communications were relayed to the second train to warn about the danger ahead. Were there any steps taken to avoid the deadly collision?

If the first train communications system malfunctioned as a result of the loss of power, then why not just use mobile phones to notify the Train Station Headquarters about the grave and dangerous situation so that the second train will stop in time before hitting the stalled train?

If this crash happend, then it is possible that the same incidents could happen in China in the future.

Hachiko, the legendary loyal dog in Japan

Call this legendary loyalty and love. Hachiko (November 10, 1923–March 8, 1935), was a legendary loyal dog in Tokyo Japan, remembered for his remarkable loyalty to his owner, even many years after his owner's death.

In 1924, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo, took in Hachikō, a golden brown Akita dog as a pet. After that they become inseparable.

Hachikō greeted his master at the end of each day at the nearby Shibuya Station in Tokyo.

The human and pet pair continued their daily routine until May 1925, when Professor Ueno did not return. The professor had suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage and died, never returning to the train station where Hachikō was waiting.

Every day for the next nine years Hachiko continued waiting faithfully for his master without fail at the Shibuya station.

The permanent fixture at the train station attracted the attention of other commuters.

People who frequented the Shibuya train station had seen Hachikō and Professor Ueno together each day before.

This time, they brought Hachikō treats and food to nourish him during his long faithful 9 years wait.

Hachiko waited for his master one last time on 8 March 1935 where the faithful dog died.

His stuffed and mounted remains are kept at the National Science Museum of Japan in Ueno, Tokyo for everyone to see as a symbol of love, loyalty and faithfullness.

Each year on April 8, Hachikō's devotion is honored with a solemn ceremony of remembrance at Tokyo's Shibuya railroad station. Hundreds of dog lovers often turn out to honor his memory and loyalty.



Hachiko's legendary love and loyalty also inspired 2 movies, one produced in 1987 in Japan and another produced in 2009, directed and starred by Hollywood's famous Richard Gere.



Rest in peace Hachiko.. We remember you...

Gut feeling saved 2 Malaysian students from Moscow Train blast

24 year old, Hoong Hua Seng from Banting, Selangor, Malaysia was probably standing or seated next to the suicide bomber in the Moscow metro train, but he and a fellow Malaysian student escaped the blast, thanks to gut-feeling.




Video above showed the aftermath after the train subway tragedy in Moscow, Russia. 2 explosions ripped through Moscow's underground metro train system, as it was jam-packed with rush-hour passengers on Monday 29 March 2010, killing 39 people and injuring at least 40 others. Officials said female suicide bombers are behind the double blasts twin attacks.



Commuters injured by a bomb blast at the Park Kultury subway station in Moscow wait for medical care just outside the station shortly after the explosion Monday, March 29, 2010.



Police are put on high alert after Monday's subway blasts. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin vowed Tuesday to "drag out of the sewer" the masterminds of the twin suicide bombing of the Moscow subway system that killed 39 people and left scores wounded. Russia observes a national day of mourning.



People lay flowers and grieve at the site of an explosion at the Park Kultury subway station in Moscow. Flowers overflowed Tuesday from tables in two Moscow subway stations in memory of the 39 passengers killed in the tragedy as Russia observes a national day of mourning.



Russian President Dmitry Medvedev lays flowers at the Lubyanka Subway station platform.



U.S. Ambassador John Beyrle lays flowers at the sight of a explosion at Lubyanka subway station in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 30, 2010.



Valentina Yegiazarian who lost her granddaughter Valentina, a student, in the subway blast, cries after an identification procedure and seen outside a morgue in central Moscow on Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Monday's attacks shocked a country that had grown accustomed to such violence being confined to a restive southern corner, and marked the return of terrorism to the everyday lives of Muscovites after a six-year break.



An Emergency Ministry psychologist, right, helps a woman after an identification procedure outside a morgue in central Moscow on Tuesday, March 30, 2010.


Russian state flag is half staff over Moscow's Kremlin on Tuesday, March 30, 2010.



Clergymen conduct a religious service for those killed in subway explosions at Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 30, 2010.



People stand at the sight of the explosion at Lubyanka subway station in Moscow.



Commuters pass by the flowers laying at the Lubyanka Subway station.



MOSCOW, Russia, Tuesday, 30th March 2010 : A gut feeling saved final-year medical student from Banting, Selangor, Malaysia, Hoong Hua Sheng (pic above) and his coursemate Sim Eih Xing from almost certain death in the second blast that rocked Moscow at the Park Kultury metro station.

Hoong was travelling onboard the train when he suddenly decided to get off at the station, seven stations before their stop at Moscow Medical Academy.

Just as the two stepped out of the train, the coach exploded. The suicide bomber had been among the commuters in the coach.

The Moscow Medical Academy student said he had felt uneasy after hearing of the first blast which happened 45 minutes earlier at the Lubyanka station.

When the train stopped at the Park Kultury metro station at about 8.30am, Hoong pulled Sim, who was with him in the train, out of the packed coach.

“I was reading a book but I had a bad feeling ... that a second blast could occur.

“I just called out to Sim to get out of the train. When the doors opened, we quickly got off,’’ he added.

“True enough, just as we were walking away, the coach we were in exploded. There were people screaming. We were really, really lucky,” he told The Star in a telephone interview.

Hoong said they tried to stay calm and find a way out from the underground metro to the street.

“It was chaotic as the attack happened during rush hour,” said Hoong, who was on his way to a surgery lecture.

Hoong said he shuddered to think that the suicide bomber could have been really near him in the wagon.

“But I do not recall seeing anyone suspicious,’’ added the 24-year-old student from Banting.

Hoong only had his hair slighty singed from the explosion while Sim suffered injuries to his left leg.

“Sim is okay. I took him to the ambulance after we got out of the station but as the staff had their hands full, we were told to walk to the nearby hospital,” he said.

Hoong said there were other Malaysian students on the same train but they too escaped unhurt.

Well, this is very true. Sometimes instincts or gut feelings or sheer luck, saved us.

We have heard of countless reports and cases of people around the world who were saved when the flights or ships or trains that they were supposed to board, crashed, sunk or derailed. God Bless..

source - the star online, Russia Today and Associated Press