'Blood was everywhere. ... Many people were hurt': Hundreds injured in Shanghai

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A Shanghai subway train rear-ended another Tuesday, injuring more than 210 people in the latest trouble for the rapidly expanded transportation system in China's commercial center.

The crash on line 10, one of the city's newest subways, occurred after Shanghai Shentong Metro Group blogged that the line was having delays due to equipment problems.

The Shanghai Metro said on the Weibo microblogging site that one of its trains suffered equipment failure at 2:10 p.m. local time (2:10 a.m. EDT), which then led station officers to manually direct approaching trains.

The collision occurred near the Yu Yuan station in central Shanghai at 2:51 p.m., according to Shanghai Metro's statements on Weibo.

At least 212 people were hurt in the crash, three of them seriously, the metro operator said. It said none had life-threatening injuries, though some of the injured were carried away on stretchers.
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Shanghai, a city of 23 million, has rapidly expanded its subway system in recent years and some lines have seen problems with faulty signaling, windows shattering, doors not opening properly and poorly trained train operators.

'Blood everywhere'
Photos posted online by passengers showed some of the injured covered in blood and lying on the floor of the train.

Shen Jun, 23, who was in the first coach of the train that collided, said "blood was everywhere."

"Many people were hurt. Look at the blood on me, on my arm," pointing at patches of blood on his shirt.

The accident snarled traffic downtown as police set up road blocks to clear the way for ambulances, and hundreds of gawkers gathered to watch as passengers were escorted out of the subway.

In July, 40 people were killed after two bullet trains crashed in Wenzhou in eastern China, triggering public fury and raising question marks over technology promoted as a symbol of the nation's growing prowess.