WENZHOU, Zhejiang - At least 35 people were killed and 210 others injured in a train crash and derailing accident late Saturday in east China's Zhejiang Province, according to the provincial emergency office.

A train is derailed after crashing with another one in Wenzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province July 23, 2011. At least 33 people were killed and 190 others were injured in the accident. [Photo/Xinhua]

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Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao called for all-out efforts to rescue passengers and ordered to make rescue work a priority, according to a statement posted on the website of the Ministry of Railways.

The latest result of investigation released early Sunday morning by the Zhejiang provincial government showed that the accident occurred at 8:27 pm Saturday at the section of Shuangyu Town in Wenzhou City, when high-speed train D301 crashed into another bullet train D3115. Four coaches of D301 fell off the viaduct.

Lightning-triggered crash

The accident occurred after high-speed train D3115 was allegedly hit by lightning and lost drive, and then rear-ended by another bullet train D301.

The former train was running from the provincial capital Hangzhou to the southeastern city of Fuzhou, and the latter one traveled from Beijing to Fuzhou.

The trains were administrated by two different regional railway bureaus - train D3115 by the Shanghai Railway Bureau while train D301 by the Nanchang Railway Bureau.

In the opposite direction, high-speed train D3212 from southeastern city of Xiamen to Hangzhou was also stopped by lightning at about 8 pm Saturday. No passenger was injured, said Liu Jiwei who was on board.

Pan Yiheng, the driver of train D301, was stabbed to death by a brake handle in his chest. He triggered the emergency brake at the last moment of his life, according to the FM93.0 radio of Zhejiang.

At the No.1 Hospital attached to the Wenzhou Medical College, a man about 40 years old told Xinhua he was a passenger from the 16th coach of D3115. There were more than 60 passengers aboard the coach.

"We were trapped in the coach for more than one hour before five of us broke the window and crawled out," said the man, who did not reveal his name.

The five passengers also dragged an old man and a woman out of the coach, but the old man died half an hour later.