The spokesman of Ministry of Railway Wang Yongping explained the reason why to bury the locomotive was provide a convenient situation for the save lives, but to cover the real cause of this particularly significant accident.
He said the thought that want cover such a horrible accident was stupid and asked the workers why they were burying the locomotive as soon as he arrived at the scene from Tibet. The staffs told him burying the locomotive was for the follow-up save behavior, if not the rescuers could not move on.
Wang Yongping said he believe this kind of explanation.
Source: People’s Daily
Translated and edited by Yang Jingmin