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Premier Apologizes to Stranded
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Chinese Premier Wen
Jiabao rushed to the train station in Changsha City, the capital
of China’s Hunan province. He told the weary, stranded thousands
of passengers, "I am deeply apologetic that you are stranded in
the railway station and not able to go home earlier. We are now
doing our best to fix thing up and you?will all be home for the
spring Festival."
Hundreds of migrant workers desperate to get home have becomes
stranded as a major winter storm paralyzed China. Cities
were?blacked out, highways were closed because of treacherous
conditions and trains in many cities were cancelled. A bus crash
on an icy road in Guishou province killed at least 25 people.
Even with all the weather-related problems, the China
Meteorological Administration issued yet still another red alert
for more severe snowstorms in the central and eastern part of
country. More than 78 million people have been affected by the
snow in 14 provinces, including Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei and Hunan.
China has been hit by the worst, most unprecedented spell of
severe weather in many years.
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