By Xinhua
Beijing : A stampede at Guangzhou railway station in south China’s Guangdong province left one person dead as passengers stranded in heavy snow rushed to board trains after days of waiting.
Continuous snow since mid-January, the worst in 50 years in central, eastern and southern China, has held up millions of people eager to return home for Spring Festival, a traditional festival of family reunion.
Nearly one million people holding train tickets were still stranded in Guangzhou, the spokesman of the railway ministry said Sunday.
About 12,000 police were posted in the Guangzhou station to maintain order.
The snow covered southern section of Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, China’s north-south artery road, has partly opened for traffic but most of the sections were still sealed off, according the ministry of communications.
By Sunday morning, most of the expressways in east China’s Zhejiang Province as well as some roads in Anhui, Hubei and Jiangxi had been closed because of snow or fog.