One dead, 127 hurt in China passenger train derailment

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NSTworld One person was killed and 127 injured when a passenger train derailed in central China on Monday after striking debris from a landslide that had fallen to the track, the state-run railway system said.

The accident happened around midday in a rural part of Hunan province and came after recent heavy rains triggered landslides in the area, a statement said.A railway police officer was killed and 122 passengers were hurt, four of them seriously. Five rail staff also suffered light injuries.

A video posted on Chinese social media and verified by AFP showed at least three cars lying on their side and a plume of smoke rising in the distance. Rescuers search at the site where a train derailed in Chenzhou in China's central Hunan province on March 30, 2020. - A passenger train derailed after striking debris from a landslide in central China on March 30, injuring a number of passengers and staff, officials said. Parts of southern, eastern and central China have been soaked by steady rains beginning last week. - AFP

 

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