Latest from border city nearest to crash site

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(23 Apr 2004) • • 1. Dandong railway station with freight train heading for destination in North Korea • 2. Front of train moving on track • 3. Pan of Sino-Korean bridge with truck loaded with supplies (not aid) travelling to the North Korean side • 4. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Cheng, vox pop • People should handle their own problems by themselves, just like people should carry their own grain bags. The North Koreans should depend on themselves to solve this issue. In China we solve problems by ourselves and do not rely on foreign aid. • 5. Woman selling souvenirs to tourists on the banks of Yalu river • 6. Tilt down from woman to souvenirs all of North Korean attractions • 7. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Liu, Former resident of North Korea who returned to China ten years ago: • I think our country and our government will offer aid to the North Korean people. The people of our two countries have a good relationship. I think we should help. • 8. Exterior of Dandong Number 2 Hospital • 9. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Miao Yanqing, Doctor, Dandong Number 2 Hospital: • If they want to come here for medical treatment we will welcome them. We are fully equipped and ready for them coming. • 10. Tilt down of building • • STORYLINE: • • Officials in Dandong, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) away from the North Korean city of Ryongchon where the train disaster occured on Thursday, told APTN on Friday they were prepared to provide medical and rescue assistance. • • Doctor at Dandong Number 2 Hospital Miao Yanqing said about the injured that we are fully equipped and ready for them coming. • • But hospital officials also confirmed that they had had no request for assistance from the North. • • North Korean''s government told aid officials that the explosion on Thursday occurred when train cars carrying dynamite touched power lines, according to the Irish aid agency Concern. • • China''s Xinhua News Agency reported the blast was blamed on ammonium nitrate - a chemical used in explosives, rocket fuel and fertiliser - leaking from one train. • • South Korea''s unification minister said the trains were carrying fuel. • • The blast leveled the train station, a school and apartments within a 500-metre (yard) radius, South Korea''s Yonhap news agency said, quoting Chinese witnesses. • • It said there were about 500 passengers and railway officials in the station at the time of the explosion. • • North Korea declared an emergency in the area while cutting off international telephone lines to prevent crash details from leaking out, the South''s Yonhap agency reported. • • The North''s official KCNA news agency still had not mentioned the disaster by Friday, a full day later. • • Later on Friday North Korea told Britain''s ambassador to Pyongyang that several hundred people are believed to have died in a train explosion near the Chinese border, the British government said. • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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