China train collision kills 11, leaves 2 wounded

The incident occurred when the train, which was testing seismic equipment, struck workers, who had entered the track at a curved section inside the Luoyang Town Railway Station in Kunming city.

A bullet train speeds during its debut near a railway station in Shanghai | Reuters/Aly Song (China)/File Photo

Beijing: Eleven people died in a train crash in China’s southern province of Yunnan on Thursday, Kunming Railway Station said, which was caused by a collision with a group of railway workers that also injured two others.

The incident occurred when the train, which was testing seismic equipment, struck the workers, who had entered the track at a curved section inside the Luoyang Town Railway Station in the city of Kunming.

(Reporting by Joe Cash and Shi Bu; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)

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