Beijing: One person was killed while several passengers sustained injuries after two coaches of a bullet train derailed in China’s Guizhou Province due to a mudslide.
According to reports, the bullet train D2809 was running from China’s South Western Guiyang province to the Southern province of Guangzhou when the two carriages derailed due to a sudden mudslide at Rongjiang station.
All injured passengers were sent to a local hospital, and the other 136 passengers have been rescued. The on-site rescue work is in full swing, and the cause of the accident is under investigation.
Rongjiang station is located in Guizhou’s Rongjiang county and is a third-class station managed by the Chengdu Bureau of China Railway.
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