News|TransportTrain collision in China kills 11 railway maintenance workers: ReportsAccident involved a train conducting a test of seismic equipment, state-run Xinhua says.
Eleven people were killed and two others injured when a train smashed into railway maintenance workers in southwestern China, state-run media reports.
Eleven people were killed and two others injured when a train smashed into railway maintenance workers in southwestern China, state-run media reports.
The train, which was being used to conduct tests involving seismic equipment when the accident happened, struck the workers as it travelled along a curved section of track at Luoyangzhen station in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, early on Thursday morning, the Xinhua news agency reported.
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A detailed investigation into the cause of the accident is under way, according to the agency.
Rail operations at Luoyangzhen station have returned to normal following the accident, while medical treatment for the injured is “proceeding in an orderly manner”, the state news outlet said.
Eleven people were killed and two others injured when a train smashed into railway maintenance workers in southwestern China, state-run media reports.
China, which has one of the world’s biggest rail networks, has experienced several deadly train accidents in recent years, although fatal incidents have become much less frequent in recent decades.
In 2022, a train derailed near Rongjiang county in Guizhou province after hitting debris from a landslide, killing a conductor and injuring eight other people, state media said.
In 2020, one person was killed and 127 others injured in a train derailment in Chenzhou in the central province of Hunan, according to state media.
China’s most recent train disaster with mass casualties occurred in 2011, when a high-speed train collided with a stationary locomotive in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, killing 40 people and injuring nearly 200.
Advertisement Prior to that, some 66 people were killed when two passenger trains collided near Zibo in eastern China’s Shandong province in 2008.
Two railway workers carry a sleeper at the site where two passenger trains collided near Zibo, east China’s Shandong province, in 2008. The train from Qingdao to Beijing was derailed after colliding with the Xuzhou-bound train, killing 66 people and injuring 247 others [File: Ng Kong/EPA]
Based on reporting by Al Jazeera.