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China’s big freeze blamed for Beijing subway crash

Police officers attend the site of the train collision in Beijing [Ng Han Guan/AP Photo]

More than 500 people have been hospitalised after two subway trains collided amid heavy snowfall in Beijing.

Authorities in the Chinese capital said on Friday that 102 people had suffered broken bones. The accident happened in west Beijing on an above-ground portion of the sprawling Changping subway line on Thursday evening.

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