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Trains run again as dam collapse damage fixed

Shanghai Daily, February 18, 2013

• Train services resumed near a reservoir in Shanxi Province yesterday after more than 5,000 workers repaired a 1.4-kilometer-long railway section damaged when a dam wall collapsed last Friday, causing flooding, China News Service reported.

  By yesterday, more than 6,400 passengers, stranded at a railway station in Taiyuan City after train services were suspended in the incident, had left the station, many by bus or train.

  Residents living near the Quting reservoir in Shanxi were evacuated after part of the dam's wall collapsed on Friday morning. The collapse occurred when the top of a water duct at the reservoir caved in, leading to the collapse of part of the dam's walls, the report said.

  No casualties were reported after the accident, but several roads were closed due to flooding.

  Damage to the 1.4-kilometer-long railway section caused by flooding forced 13 train lines to travel on another routes and shut down eight train services, officials at the Taiyuan Railway Bureau said.

  Local officials said the water duct was built in 1959 and that its age was thought to be one cause of the incident.

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