Beijing, Aug.17 (ANI): The Chinese Railway Ministry has fired its spokesman in a further attempt to clean up its image after a train crash in July killed 40 people.
The Xinhua News Agency and the China Daily reported that Wang Yongping is the latest official to be fired after a deadly train crash in East China's Zhejiang province on July 23 killed dozens of passengers, injured at least 200 others and raised concerns about the safety of China's high-speed trains.
It is still unknown whether Wang will remain deputy director of the ministry's political department.
The 56-year-old veteran railroader, who once said he has "never left the tracks", was fired after he had infuriated the public with his explanation of why rescue workers had buried train carriages at the crash site.
Many said the burials were undertaken to conceal the real causes of the accident.
Wang again came under severe criticism for saying that the survival of a 2-year-old girl on one of the trains had been a "miracle".
She was only discovered after a police officer had insisted on searching the carriage even though the ministry had allegedly called off the rescue operation and ordered the carriages to be removed with a crane. (ANI)
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