A high-speed rail driver was killed and several passengers injured after a train derailed in southwest China’s Guizhou province on Saturday, state media reported. The train, which was en route to Guangdong province, derailed after running into debris that had fallen onto the tracks near a tunnel, official broadcaster CCTV reported. A rail conductor and seven passengers were injured and sent to hospital, CCTV said, adding that “their lives were not in danger”. In recent years, fatal accidents have been rare on China’s rail network, which is the world’s largest high-speed transport system. But in 2017, twelve workers died in an explosion wile building a high-speed rail tunnel in Guizhou.

Source: The Guardian June 04, 2022 08:29 UTC