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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

At least 11 dead after train slams into group of railway workers in China

File: China railway shipping containers - (Getty Images)

At least 11 people have been killed in China after a train ran over a group of railway workers, in one of the deadliest incidents on the country’s rail network in years.

The train, testing earthquake detection equipment, collided with construction workers at the Luoyang Town Railway Station in Kunming, the capital city of Southwest China’s Yunnan Province. At least two others were rushed to hospital with injuries.

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