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BEIJING — Premier Wen Jiabao, in a rare news conference Thursday at the site of last weekend’s deadly train wreck in eastern China, promised an “open and transparent” investigation of an accident that has prompted questions about the safety of the country’s high-speed rail system and the speed of the government’s response.
Wen’s remarks came on the same day that state media reported the Shanghai Railway Bureau had determined that “design flaws” in the track’s signaling equipment led to Saturday’s tragedy, in which at least 39 people died.
