At least eleven people died and two others were injured this morning in southwest China when a train collided with a group of track workers, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
The train, transporting seismic monitoring equipment, was travelling normally near a station in Yunnan province when it struck the workers who had “entered” the tracks on a curve, according to the Kunming Railway Bureau.
Emergency protocols were immediately activated, and railway authorities worked with local officials to launch rescue operations.
An investigation into the cause is underway, and those responsible will be held accountable, the bureau stated.
China’s rail network, now the world’s largest at 160,000 km, carries billions of passenger trips annually.
Today’s disaster marks the deadliest rail accident in China in more than a decade. The last comparable incident occurred in 2021 in Gansu province, when nine track workers were killed in a similar collision.
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