I am beyond rage.
The video below shows that less than 10 hours after the train clash in China, while the injured are still being taken out of the compartments, half a dozen bulldozers have started pulling, rolling (and what looks like burying) the train on the spot.
I'm no engineer, but even I know that if you want to investigate the cause of the accident, and/or if you want to search carefully enough to make sure that no one is still trapped inside the compartments somewhere, you DO NOT destroy them.
The accident happened on July 23, 10:38 PM.
The rescue ended about four hours later at at 2 AM on the 24th.
State news media claimed that there was no sign of life at around 4 AM. That was when the bulldozers were called in.
At around 5 PM, a two-year old girl was found in the train debris.
How many more people were inside when they started crushing, dissecting, compressing and burying the train? No one knows.
Shanghai Railway Bureau Chief, his Deputy, and Party Secretary got fired. -- But they are not the ones who commissioned, built and supervised this line.
Officials from the Ministry of Railways claimed that the railway is fit to be up and running at 7 PM -- less than 24 hours from the accident, and before the cause is properly investigated.
I do not blame this on corruption -- a word everyone is so jaded hearing that it has become the chair the officials sit on.
This shows their lack of basic human decency.
*** Yes, I'm aware that the officials have denied that they were burying the train, but if dozens of witnesses who had been watching their action for hours all say the train was being buried -- who would you trust?
*** Yes, I'm aware that the officials have denied that they were burying the train, but if dozens of witnesses who had been watching their action for hours all say the train was being buried -- who would you trust?
UPDATE: The video I originally posted, from a Hong Kong media, has been taken down. It also disappeared from other Chinese video host websites.
